The Ryebuck Shearer

-Traditional Australian

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

If I don't shear a tally before I go

then my shears and my stone in the river I'll throw

And I'll never open Sawbees to take another blow

And I'll prove I'm a ryebuck shearer

( same chords for chorus & verses )

( f# = single note, 6th string, 2ndfret )

G f# Em G f# Em

I come from the south and my name it's field

And when my shears are properly steeled

G f# Em G f# Em

A hundred and more I have very often peeled,

And of course I'm a ryebuck shear-er

There's a bloke on the board and I heard him say

That I couldn't shear a hundred sheep in a day

But some fine day I'll show him the way

And prove I'm a ryebuck shearer

There's a bloke on the board and he's got yellow skin

A very long nose and he shaves on the chin

And a voice like a billygoat pissing on a tin

And of course he's a ryebuck shearer

There's a bloke named Bill, or so I've heard

He's got a face like a dried up Buffalow's turd

He thinks he's really good but ya oughta see his bird

She thinks shes a ryebuck shearer

** seen this played several diverse & diferent ways but this is the way I

** learnt it, any alternatives or additional lyrics welcomed

** - Mike HW