Misc Traditional - The Overlanders guitar tab

e: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:03:52 +1000

The Overlanders Australian Folk Song

Transcribed by K Woodgate

Easy melody Version

The song can be found on records by the Bushwackers, Cobbers, William Clauson

and many other Australian Folk records.

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There's a trade you all know well, It's bring-ing the cat-tle o-ver. Now

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lis-ten while I tell to you How I be-came a drov-er. I want-ed stock for

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Queens-land, To Kemp-sey I did wan-der Bought a thous-and cat-tle there

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And then turned o- ver - land - er.

CHORUS

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Pass the bot-tle round boys, and don't you leave it stand there, For

to-night

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we'll drink the health of ev-ry o - ver-land-er

When the cattle were counted

And the outfit ready to start,

I saw the boys all mounted

With their swags thrown in the cart,

All kinds of men I had too

From France and Spain and Flanders

Lawyers, doctors, good and bad,

In the mob of overlanders.

From the track I then spread out

Where the grass was green and young,

When a squatter with a curse and shout,

Told me to move along.

I said, 'Come draw it mild man,

And don't you raise my dander

For I'm a regular knowin' card,

A Queensland overlander.'

We move the cattle fifty miles

And make camp for the day,

We talk about the rich folk's life

And true loves far away.

Our tucker isn't fancy

Beef and tea and damper

But wash it down with Queensland rum

It suits the overlander,

Our clothes are getting dirtier

And throats they choke with dust,

We set our tired horses free

And in the dogs we trust.

We gaze into the shimmering haze,

And dream of places grander,

But, come what may, we know we'll stay

The Queensland overlander

I would scorn to prig a shirt,

That all my mates can say

But if we pass a township

Upon a washing day,

The dirty brats of kids would shout,

And quickly raise my dander

Crying, 'Mother dear, take in your clothes,

Here comes the overlander.'

In town we dress ourselves up

And we go and see a play.

We never think of being hard up,

Or how to spend a day,

We steer up to them pretty girls

That dress themselves in grandeur

And while they sweat our cheques, they swear

They love the overlander.