Billy of Tea

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:31:40 +1000

From: Kevin Woodgate <kwoodg10@scu.edu.au>

Subject: m/misc_folk/billy_of_tea.tab

Billy Of Tea 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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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