Billy Of Tea Australian Folk Song
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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1 You can talk of your whis-ky talk of your beer, There's some-thing much
ni-
2 So fill up your tum - bler as high as you can And don't you dare tell
3 I rise in the morning as soon as it's light And go to the nose
bag
4 And while it is boiling the horses I seek And foll - ow them
down
5 And at night when I camp if the days has been warm I give to my
6 Then the fire I make and the wa - ter I get And corned beef and
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1 cer that's wait-ing us here, It sits on the fire be-neath the gum tree,
2 me it's not the best plan, You can let all your beer and your spirits go
free
3 to see it's al- right That the ants on the sugar no mortgage have
got
4 as far as the creek I take off their hobbles and let them run free
5 horses their tucker of corn From the two in the pole to the one in the
lead
6 Damper in order, I set But I don't touch the grub though so hungry
I be-
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1 There's no-thing much ni-cer than a bil-ly of tea
2 I'll stick to my darl-ing old bil-ly of tea
3 And straight away sling my old black bil-ly pot
4 Then haste to tuck in - to my bil-ly of tea
5 A billy for each holds a com - for - ta - ble feed
6 I wait till it's read - y - the bil-ly of tea