[Editor: This collection of bush songs, edited by Andrew Barton (“Banjo”) Paterson, was published in 1932 (8th edition). The book enjoyed a widespread popularity in Australia. Most of these songs appeared in the first edition of The Old Bush Songs (1905), although the 1932 edition included twenty additional songs (which have been marked in this list with an asterisk*).]
Old Bush Songs
Composed and Sung in the Bushranging, Digging, and Overlanding Days
Edited by
A. B. Paterson
Author of The Man From Snowy River, Rio Grande, Saltbush Bill, J.P., An Outback Marriage, and Three Elephant Power
Eighth Edition
[Preface]
[Introduction]
Contents
Two Aboriginal Songs
Paddy Malone in Australia
The Old Bullock Dray
Paddy’s Letter, 1857
The Old Bark Hut
The Old Survey
Dwell Not With Me
The Beautiful Land of Australia
On The Road to Gundagai
Flash Jack from Gundagai
Another Fall of Rain
Bold Jack Donahoo
* Bold Jack Donahoo [Another Version]
* Dunn, Gilbert and Ben Hall
* The Death of Morgan
* Then Give Me a Hut in My Own Native Land
* Down by the Sydney Side
* New England Cocky
* The Girls of Tasmania
* Across the Western Plains I Must Wander
* Hang the Man Who Works
* A Wild Rover No More
* The Ramble-eer
* With My Swag all on My Shoulder
* My Four Little Johnny-Cakes
* To-morrow I’m Losing My Darling
* Banks of Riverine
The Wild Colonial Boy
John Gilbert (Bushranger)
Immigration
The Squatter’s Man
The Stringy Bark Cockatoo
The Eumerella Shore
Jimmy Sago, Jackaroo
The Plains of Riverine
The Sheep-Washers’ Lament
The Broken-Down Squatter
The Free Selector
A National Song for Australia Felix
Sunny New South Wales
Bringing Home the Cows
The Dying Stockman
My Mate Bill
Sam Holt
The Bushman
Hawking
Colonial Experience
The Stockmen of Australia
It’s Only a Way He’s Got
The Loafer’s Club
The Old Keg of Rum
The Murrumbidgee Shearer
The Swagman
The Stockman
The Maranoa Drovers
River Bend
Song of the Squatter
Wallabi Joe
The Squatter of the Olden Time
The Stockman’s Last Bed
Mustering Song
The Australian Stockman
The Shepherd
The Overlander
A Thousand Miles Away
The Freehold on the Plain
The Wallaby Brigade
My Religion
Bourke’s Dream
Billy Barlow in Australia
* Tomahawking Fred
* The Death of Ben Hall
* Our Jack
* Ben Hall
* Goorianawa
Australia
Angus & Robertson Limited
89 Castlereagh Street, Sydney
1932
Set up, printed and bound in Australia by Halstead Printing Company Ltd., Arnold Place, Sydney 1932
Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, for transmission through the post as a book
Halstead Printing Company Limited,
Arnold Place, Sydney
Source:
A. B. Paterson (editor), Old Bush Songs: Composed and Sung in the Bushranging, Digging, and Overlanding Days (8th edition), Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1932
Editor’s notes:
The Preface and Introduction were not included in the original list of contents, but have been included here so as to enable convenient accessibility.
Most of the links in the Contents list link to the songs published in the 1905 edition, except for the additional songs, as well as the Preface and Introduction, which had some small changes.
The additional twenty songs (those not included in the 1905 edition) have been marked in this list with an asterisk* (although such asterisks were not included in the original Contents list of the 1932 edition). The additional twenty songs were printed on pages 38-70 and 180-187.
This edition included another version of “Bold Jack Donahoo”. In the original list of Contents both songs were listed simply as “Bold Jack Donahoo”; in this list the second version has “[Another Version]” placed after its name, in order to distinguish it from the first version (it was given the description of “Another Version” on p. 38 of the book).
In 1957 a new book was produced which was based upon Paterson’s work: Australian Bush Ballads: Enlarged and Revised from the Collection of A.B. Paterson, edited by Douglas Stewart & Nancy Keesing.
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