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With or Without You
Time of Your Life
Brown Eyed Girl
Norwegian Wood
The Drugs Won't Work
Mr Bojangles
I've Got You Under My Skin
Summertime
Black Is the Colour
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Throw Your Arms Around Me

Don't Dream It's Over
To Her Door

Father and Son


All of Me
My Funny Valentine
Whiskey in the Jar
The Diamantina Drover

 
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THE SPIRIT OF THE LAND Streams of Whiskey
Sally MacLannan
Dirty Old Town
Willy McBride
I Was Only Nineteen
Under the Milky Way

Spirit of the Land
I'll See You in My Dreams
Fields of Athenry
 

                  

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  Where's the Party  Spirit of the Land The Lawson Album

About the Lawson Album

THE FACES IN THE STREET
This poem deals with the issues of homelessness, unemployment and poverty, in a way that bridges the ninety years or so since it was written. Quite simply, it could have been written yesterday.

SONG OF THE REPUBLIC
A timely reminder that the current republican debate is not a new phenomenon.

ON THE NIGHT TRAIN
This was Lawson's last poem in which he expresses his spiritual union with the "mother bush". This is interesting because he uses similar terms to those used by the aboriginal people of Australia when they describe their relationship with the land. This view would have been quite unusual among the European settlers of this period.

THE ROARING DAYS  
A romantic view of the days before the gold rush changed the physical and social landscape of Western Australia forever.

DO YOU THINK THAT I DO NOT KNOW?
 In this poem, Lawson would appear to be answering those critics who expressed the view that he could not tackle the topic of love. There were apparently people who publicly criticised Lawson as being a writer who could only write about the bush or politics or subjects that did not deal directly with the more sensitive human emotions.

THE WATCH ON THE KERB 
A down-to-earth look at the oldest profession in one of the youngest countries.

KNOCKING ABOUT
This poem reminds us of the days when families, separated by economic necessity, could not pick up the telephone and be magically in touch with their loved ones thousands of miles away. The sad image of the old farmer and his wife who when asked about their son who has gone upcountry to seek his fortune droving or shearing, can only give the poignantly vague answer: "Somewheres or others, he's knocking about".

MALLACOOTA BAR
Lawson spent time in Malacoota, a small coastal fishing village on the south coast of New South Wales where he stayed with E. J. Brady, another writer of the time. Malacoota is actually in Victoria just south of Eden.

THE SLIPRAILS AND THE SPUR
Mary is the lonely farm girl waiting faithfully for her beloved Jim, a young stockman, to return home. His work takes him away from home for months at a time and this poem speaks eloquently of how they deal with these lengthy separations and maintain their love for each other.

ANDY`S GONE WITH CATTLE
This classic of Australian rural prose captures the isolation of the bush and the dependence of families on their strong young men.

PAST CARIN' 
The emotions of the female character in this song have become dulled from having to endure a lifetime of hardship and from experiencing the whole gamut of human tragedy.

SCOTS OF THE RIVERINA
The tragedy of war and its effect on a family of Scottish migrants. Their son goes off to war, against his father's wishes, and is killed without their conflict being resolved.

THE SWEENEY  
A portrait of one of those characters you can still meet when traveling through the Australian outback - self imposed exiles from the cities who drift from town to town, never settling in one place for very long, who try vainly to escape the ghosts of their conscience or their past. Sweeney loves a drink, a fight and a yarn with a mate.

 

 

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