Toganmain in Australian Folklore

Flash Jack from Gundagai, Banjo Patterson, 1905

I've shore at Burrabogie and I've shore at Toganmain

I've shore at Big Willandra and out on the Coleraine

But before the shearing was over I longed to get back again

Shearing for old Tom Patterson on the One Tree Plain


Chorus:

All among the wool, boys, all among the wool.

Keep your blades full, boys, keep your blades full.

I can do a respectable tally meself whenever I like to try.

They know me round the backblocks as Flash Jack from Gundagai.


I've shore at Big Willandra and I've shore at Tilberoo,

And once I drew my blades, boys, upon the famed Barcoo.

But at Cowan Downs and Trida as far as the Moulamein

I was always glad to get back again on the One Tree Plain.


And I've pinked them with the Wolseleys and I've brushed with B-bows too,

And I've shaved them in the grease, me boys, with the grass seeds showing through.

But I never slummed a pen, my lads, whatever it might contain,

When shearing for Old Tom Patterson on the One Tree Plain.


And I've been whaling up the Lachlan and I've dossed on Cooper's Creek,

And once I rung Cudjingie shed and blued it in a week.

But when Gabriel blows his trumpet, lads, I'll catch the morning train,

And push for Old Tom Patterson's on the One Tree Plain.