Click Go the Shears

Song

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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:39:46 +1000

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

Subject: m/misc_traditional/click_go_the_shears.tab

Click Go The Shears 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.

Intro

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1 Out on the board the old shear-er stands

2 In the middle of the floor in his cane bottom chair

3 The colonial experience man, he is there of course

4 The tar-boy is there waiting in demand

5 Now the shearing is all over, we've all got our cheques

6 There we leave him standing shouting for all hands

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1 Grasp-ing his shears in his thin bo - ny hands Fixed is his gaze on

2 Sits the boss of the board with his eyes everywhere Notes well each fleece

3 With his shiny leggin's on just got off his horse Gazes all around him like

4 With his blackened tar-pot, in his tarry hand Spies one old sheep

5 So roll up your swags and its off down the track the first pub we come to

its

6 Whilst all around him every 'shouter' stands His eye is on the keg

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1 a bare bel-lied yoe Glo-ry if he gets her, wont he make the ring-er go

2 as it comes to the screen, Paying strict attention that it's taken off clean

3 a real connoisseur Scented soap, and brilliantine and smelling like a whore

4 with a cut upon its back Hears what he's waiting for it's "Tar here, Jack!"

5 there well have a spree and everyone that comes along its Have a drink

withme

6 which now is lowering fast He works hard he drinks hard and goes to Hell

at last

Chorus

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Click go the shears boys click click click Wide is his blow and his hands

move

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quick The ring-er looks a-round and is beat-en by a blow, And curs-

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-es the old snag-ger with the bare bel-lied yoe