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Title: Immigration Author: Banjo Paterson [More Titles by Paterson] [Mr. Jordan was sent to England by the Queensland Government in 1858, 1859, and 1860 to lecture on the advantages of immigration, and told the most extraordinary tales about the place.] (Air: "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.")
Here mutton, beef, and damper are all you'll get to eat, Here snakes and all vile reptiles crawl around you as you walk, Here are boundless plains where it seldom rains, and you'll maybe die of thirst; To sum it up in few short words, the place is only fit [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |