Click Go The Shears

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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:39:46 +1000
From: Kevin Woodgate
Subject: m/misc_traditional/*
Transcribed by K Woodgate
Easy melody Version
The song can be found on records by the Bushwackers, Cobbers, William Clauson
and many other Australian Folk records.

1                                Out on the board the old shear-er stands
2                     In the middle of the floor in his cane bottom chair
3                      The colonial experience man, he is there of course
4                                  The tar-boy is there waiting in demand
5                 Now the shearing is all over, we've all got our cheques
6                      There we leave him standing shouting for all hands

2 Sits the boss of the board with his eyes everywhere Notes well each fleece
3 With his shiny leggin's on just got off his horse Gazes all around him like
4 With his blackened tar-pot, in his tarry hand Spies one old sheep
5 So roll up your swags and its off down the track the first pub we come to
its
6 Whilst all around him every 'shouter' stands His eye is on the keg

1 a bare bel-lied yoe Glo-ry if he gets her, wont he make the ring-er go
2 as it comes to the screen, Paying strict attention that it's taken off clean
3 a real connoisseur Scented soap, and brilliantine and smelling like a whore
4 with a cut upon its back Hears what he's waiting for it's "Tar here, Jack!"
5 there well have a spree and everyone that comes along its Have a drink
withme
6 which now is lowering fast He works hard he drinks hard and goes to Hell
at last
Chorus

 Click go the shears boys click click click Wide is his blow and his hands
move

  quick The ring-er looks a-round and is beat-en by  a blow, And curs-

   -es the old snag-ger with the bare bel-lied yoe