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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344130" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Bark Hut</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, my name is Bob the Swagman, before you all I stand,<br>And I've had many ups and downs while travelling through the land.<br>I once was well-to-do, my boys, but now I am stumped up,<br>And I'm forced to go on rations in an old bark hut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In an old bark hut. In an old bark hut.<br>I'm forced to go on rations in an old bark hut.<br>Ten pounds of flour, ten pounds of beef, some sugar and some tea,<br>That's all they give to a hungry man, until the Seventh Day.<br>If you don't be moighty sparing, you'll go with a hungry gut<br>For that's one of the great misfortunes in an old bark hut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In an old bark hut. In an old bark hut.<br>For that's one of the great misfortunes in an old bark hut.<br>The bucket you boil your beef in has to carry water, too,<br> And they'll say you're getting mighty flash if you should ask for two.<br>I've a billy, and a pint pot, and a broken-handled cup,<br>And they all adorn the table in the old bark hut.  </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In an old bark hut. In an old bark hut.<br>And they all adorn the table in the old bark hut.<br>Faith, the table is not made of wood, as many you have seen<br>For if I had one half so good, I'd think myself serene<br>'Tis only an old sheet of bark—God knows when it was cut<br>It was blown from off the rafters of the old bark hut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In an old bark hut. In an old bark hut.<br>It was blown from off the rafters of the old bark hut.<br>And of furniture, there's no such thing, 'twas never in the place,<br>Except the stool I sit upon—and that's an old gin case.<br>It does us for a safe as well, but you must keep it shut,<br>Or the flies would make it canter round the old hark hut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In an old bark hut. In an old bark hut.<br>Or the flies would make it canter round the old bark hut.<br>If you should leave it open, and the flies should find your meat,<br>They'll scarcely leave a single piece that's fit for man to eat.<br>But you mustn't curse, nor grumble—what won't fatten will fill up<br>For what's out of sight is out of mind in an old bark hut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">   <br>In an old bark hut. In an old bark hut.<br>For what's out of sight is out of mind in an old bark hut.<br>In the summer time, when the weather's warm, this hut is nice and cool,<br>And you'll find the gentle breezes blowing in through every hole.<br>You can leave the old door open, or you can leave it shut,<br>There's no fear of suffocation in the old bark hut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In an old bark hut. In an old bark hut.<br>There's no fear of suffocation in the old bark hut.<br>In the winter time—preserve us all—to live in there's a treat<br>Especially when it's raining hard, and blowing wind and sleet.<br>The rain comes down the chimney, and your meat is black with soot<br>That's a substitute for pepper in an old bark hut.<br>In an old bark hut. In an old bark hut.<br>That's a substitute for pepper in an old bark hut.<br>I've seen the rain come in this hut just like a perfect flood,<br>Especially through that great big hole where once the table stood.<br>There's not a blessed spot, me boys, where you could lay your nut,<br>But the rain is sure to find you in the old bark hut.<br>In an old bark hut. In an old bark hut.<br>But the rain is sure to find you in the old bark hut.<br>So beside the fire I make me bed, and there I lay me down,<br>And think myself as happy as the king that wears a crown.<br>But as you'd be dozing off to sleep a flea will wake you up,<br>Which makes you curse the vermin in the old bark hut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In an old bark hut. In an old bark hu<br>Which makes you curse the vermin in the old bark hut.<br>Faith, such flocks of fleas you never saw, they are so plump and fat,<br>And if you make a grab at one, he'll spit just like a cat.<br>Last night they got my pack of cards, and were fighting for the cut<br>I thought the devil had me in the old bark hut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In an old bark hut. In an old bark hut.<br>I thought the devil had me in the old bark hut.<br>So now, my friends, I've sung my song, and that as well as I could,<br>And I hope the ladies present won't think my language rude,<br>And all ye younger people, in the days when you grow up,<br>Remember Bob the Swagman, and the old bark hut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In an old bark hut. In an old bark hut.<br>Remember Bob the Swagman, and the old bark hut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q>
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And I've had many ups and downs while travelling through the land.
I once was well-to-do, my boys, but now I am stumped up,
And I'm forced to go on rations in an old bark hut.

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