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From: Mike HW 
Subject: Ryebuck Shearer - traditional Australian
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:11:50 +1100 (EST)

"The Ryebuck Shearer"

-Traditional Australian

** submitted by Mike Hiltonwood - i951612@redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au

Chorus
If I don't shear a tally before I go
then my shears and my stone in the river I'll throw
And I'll never open Sawbees to take another blow
And I'll prove I'm a ryebuck shearer

( same chords for chorus & verses )
( f# = single note, 6th string, 2ndfret )

G (320003@1)    f# (244222@1)     Em (022000@1)         G (320003@1)  f# (244222@1) EmI (022000@1)come from the south and my name it's field
G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)        A7And (x02020@1)when my shears are properly steeled
G (320003@1)   f# (244222@1)     Em (022000@1)        G (320003@1)  f# (244222@1)  EmA (022000@1) hundred and more I have very often peeled,
G (320003@1)                 D (xx0232@1)     G (320003@1) C (x32010@1)GAnd (320003@1)of course I'm a ryebuck shear-er


There's a bloke on the board and I heard him say
That I couldn't shear a hundred sheep in a day
But some fine day I'll show him the way
And prove I'm a ryebuck shearer

There's a bloke on the board and he's got yellow skin
A very long nose and he shaves on the chin
And a voice like a billygoat pissing on a tin
And of course he's a ryebuck shearer

There's a bloke named Bill, or so I've heard
He's got a face like a dried up Buffalow's turd
He thinks he's really good but ya oughta see his bird
She thinks shes a ryebuck shearer

** seen this played several diverse & diferent ways but this is the way I
** learnt it, any alternatives or additional lyrics welcomed
** -  Mike HW