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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344169" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Stringy-Bark Cockatoo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm a broken-hearted miner, who loves his cup to drain,<br>Which often times has caused me to lie in frost and rain.<br>Roaming about the country, looking for some work to do,<br>I got a job of reaping off a stringy-bark cockatoo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, the stringy-bark cockatoo,<br>Oh, the stringy-bark cockatoo,<br>I got a job of reaping off a stringy-bark cockatoo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ten bob an acre was his price—with promise of fairish board.<br>He said his crops were very light, 'twas all he could afford.<br>He drove me out in a bullock dray, and his piggery met my view.<br>Oh, the pigs and geese were in the wheat of the stringy-bark cockatoo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hut was made of the surface mud, the roof of a reedy thatch.<br>The doors and windows open flew without a bolt or latch.<br>The pigs and geese were in the hut, the hen on the table flew,<br> And she laid an egg in the old tin plate for the stringy-bark cockatoo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For breakfast we had pollard, boys, it tasted like cobbler's paste.<br>To help it down we had to eat brown bread with vinegar taste.<br>The tea was made of the native hops, which out on the ranges grew;<br>'Twas sweetened with honey bees and wax for the stringy-bark cockatoo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For dinner we had goanna hash, we thought it mighty hard;<br>They wouldn't give us butter, so we forced down bread and lard.<br>Quondong duff, paddy-melon pie, and wallaby Irish stew<br>We used to eat while reaping for the stringy-bark cockatoo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When we started to cut the rust and smut was just beginning to shed,<br>And all we had to sleep on was a dog and sheep-skin bed.<br> The bugs and fleas tormented me, they made me scratch and screw;<br> I lost my rest while reaping for the stringy-bark cockatoo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At night when work was over I'd nurse the youngest child,<br>And when I'd say a joking word, the mother would laugh and smile.<br>The old cocky, he grew jealous, and he thumped me black and blue,<br> And he drove me off without a rap—the stringy-bark cockatoo.</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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Which often times has caused me to lie in frost and rain.
Roaming about the country, looking for some work to do,
I got a job of reaping off a stringy-bark cockatoo.

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