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"ALL FOR ME GROG" Lyrics?

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Would anybody be so kind as to email me the lyrics to "All for Me Grog". I
have the Liam Clancy version, but am missing the Dubliners, Robin
Williamson, and others (they got lost when my lyric book got stolen in
'79) -- the lyrics, I mean. As far as I know Clancy, the Dubliners, and
Williamson are just where they've always been ;-)

TIA



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From "http://www.chepd.mq.edu.au./boomerang/songnet/002.html" - the Australian
Folk songs homepage. Thanks to mark.g...@mq.edu.au for putting it
together.......

Across the Western Plains


Chorus
Oh for me grog my jolly jolly grog
Oh for me beer and tobacco
Well I spent all my tin in a shanty drinking gin
Now across the Western Plain I must wander

I'm stiff stoney broke and I've parted with me moke
And the sky is looking black as flaming thunder
And the shanty boss is too for I haven't got a sou
That's the way you're treated when you're down and under

Well I'm crook in the head for I haven't been to bed
Since first I touched this shanty with my plunder
I see centipedes and snakes, and I'm full of pains and aches
So I"d better make a push out over yonder

I'll take that Old Man Plain and I'll cross it once again
Until me eyes the track no longer see boys
And my beer and whisky brain looks for sleep but all in vain
And I feel as if I had the Darling Pea boys

So hang that blasted grog, that hocussed shanty grog
And the beer that's loaded with tobacco
Grafting humour I am in and I'll stick the peg right in
And I'll settle down once more for some hard yakka


Notes

First printed in the Bulletin in May 1916. Reworked from a sailor's song
'Noggin Boots' or 'Across the Western Ocean' This
version from the singing of A.L.Lloyd who writes "Sung straight the song never
seemed to me wildly exiting, but once I heard a
drunken shearer named White sing it on a station near Bethungra NSW, in a way
that would make the hair stand on end."

Laurie Miller

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Oct 5, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/5/96
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Hmmmn, one of my Newfoundland friends has a slightly different version, of
which I can only remember the chorus (of course)....

Oh it's all for me grog, me jolly jolly grog
All for me beer and tobaccy
Well, I spent all me tin on the lassies drinking gin
Far across the western ocean I must wander.

The rest of the lyrics follow a similar theme, Newfoundland twist, oceans
and lassies instead of plains and money, If anyone was terribly
interested, you could email me and I can ask said Nfld friend (he's just
around the corner from me) for the complete lyrics as he knows them...

Eddie Close

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Oct 9, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/9/96
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van...@wizard.com (The Internet Advantage) wrote:

>Would anybody be so kind as to email me the lyrics to "All for Me Grog". I
>have the Liam Clancy version, but am missing the Dubliners, Robin
>Williamson, and others (they got lost when my lyric book got stolen in
>'79) -- the lyrics, I mean. As far as I know Clancy, the Dubliners, and
>Williamson are just where they've always been ;-)

>TIA
I`ve got then somewhere - If I can find them I`ll let you know in the
next day or two.

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