Thu 6 March 2008 - Where’s Clancy now?
Maybe things haven’t changed all that much in the last 119 years.
And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle
Of the tramways and the buses making hurry down the street,
And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting,
Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:11am
Daniel
you hear cattle in Swanston St?
Bull!
Rog.
March 7th, 2008 at 6:28pm
Um Roger…it says ‘in PLACE’ of lowing cattle….
March 7th, 2008 at 9:40pm
Jen
whoops. thanks for that. sorry!
Rog.
March 9th, 2008 at 12:21pm
Vaguely uninteresting fact about me #287: I used to be able to recite ‘Clancy of the Overflow’ when I was in grade six. Now I can’t get past “Clancy’s gone to Queensland drovin’ and we don’t know where he are”
March 9th, 2008 at 3:43pm
Hehe Trish I was the same with the man from snowy river. There was movement at the station…
My mum always joked about all the tried and noted riders having ‘mustard’ at the station.
March 12th, 2008 at 10:36am
I’ve been reading Banjo’s peoms to my daughters (4 &
because I really enjoyed learning them when I was young, but they don’t seem up to it just yet. Maybe if I added that the ‘colt from old Regret’ was on a Saddle Club ranch, that might help.
I remember learning them in Grade 7 and analysing each line, the teacher asking us what we though each word mean’t.