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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Paterson, Banjo
Queensland. 'Clancy's gone to Queensland droving'. In this poem Banjo laments that he is stuck in a city office while his friend is working in the country. As much as he'd like to swap jobs with Clancy, Banjo says '...I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy of 'The Overflow'.
| 'There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around' is the first line from which famous poem? | Poems of Banjo Paterson
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The Man From Snowy River'. A TV show and a movie have been based on this poem. Horses and horsemen are the subject of many poems by Banjo Paterson.
Maginnis. The priest, who was performing the christening, had forgotten the name that was told to him by the parents. So when the time had come to name the boy the priest said the first word that he could see ... from the label of a 'Maginnis's Whisky' bottle. This is my favourite Banjo Paterson poem.
| 'The Geebung Polo Club' is about a country polo club that plays a game against a snobby city team. What is the name of the city team in this great poem? | Poems of Banjo Paterson
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Cuff and Collar Team. '... a polo club existed, called the Cuff and Collar Team. As a social insitution was a marvellous success. For the members were distinguished by exclusiveness and dress.' All the players end up dying in this city versus country match and they now haunt the ground it was played on. They certainly take their polo seriously!
Eaglehawk. 'Mulga Bill's Bicycle' is the story of a man who thought that riding a bike would be similar to riding a horse. After a near death ride down a mountain he left the bike in a creek and went back to his faithful horse.
Sheep. Bad timing for the main character of this poem because 'down came the troopers'. To flee from the police troopers the swagman 'jumped into the billabong' and drowned. This poem was written in 1895 but was first published as sheet music in 1903.
Coolibah. 'Waltzing Matilda' is possibly one of Australia's best known poems. If you're Australian and you got this one wrong .... shame, shame, shame. {;-)}
Blue. 'For the locks may bleach, and the cheeks of peach May be reft of their golden {hue;} But mine own sweetheart, I shall love you still, Just as long as your eyes are blue.' Ahhhh, a romantic at heart!
Flowing beards. 'The Man from Ironbark' is a poem about a country man on his first trip to the city. He is tricked by a barber into thinking that his throat has been cut.
Sydney town. 'The Man From Ironbark' was first published in 'The Bulletin' in 1892 and is very typical of Banjo's bush ballads.
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