Banjo Paterson Quotes

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Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a coolibah tree, And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil, "Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

Banjo Paterson

He hails from Snowy River, up by Kosciusko's side,
Where the hills are twice as steep, and twice as rough;
Where the horse's hoofs strike firelight from the flintstones every stride,
The man that holds his own is good enough.
And the Snowy River riders on the mountains make their home,
Where the river runs those giant hills between;
I have seen full many horsemen since I first commenced to roam,
But nowhere yet such horsemen have I seen.

Banjo Paterson

For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know,

Banjo Paterson

The barber man was small and flash, as barbers mostly are,
He wore a strike-your-fancy sash, he smoked a huge cigar;
He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
He laid the odds and kept a "tote", whatever that may be,
And when he saw our friend arrive, he whispered, "Here's a lark!
Just watch me catch him all alive, this man from Ironbark."

Banjo Paterson

Banjo Paterson

Banjo Paterson

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Born: February 17, 1864

Died: February 5, 1941 (aged 76)

Bio: Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author.

Known for:

The Man from Snowy River (1895)
Clancy of the Overflow
Banjo Patterson: Great Australian Poet
Poems of Banjo Paterson
Mulga Bill's Bicycle (1896)

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