Across the Western Plains

-Traditional Australian

submitted by Mike Hiltonwood i951612@redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au

4/4 (2/4 ??)

Its all for me grog, me jolly, jolly grog

Its all for me beer and tobacco

'cos I spent all my tin in the shanty drinking gin

Now across the Western Plains I must wand--er

( same chords for chorus and verses )

Verses:

I'm stiff and stony broke and I've parted with my smoke

And the sky is looking black as thunder

And the boss ofthe shanty too, for I haven't got a sou

Thats how they treat you when you're down and under

I'm crook in the head, for I haven't been to bed

Since I first touched this shanty with my plunder

I see centipedes and snakes, and I'm full of achces and shakes

So I'd better make a push out over yonder

Repentance brings reproof, so I sadly pad the hoof

All day I see the mirage of the trees

But it'll all have an end when I reach the river bend

And listen to the sighing of the breeze