Between the Lines
The Folk Process at Work in Australia - By Jason Roweth
‘These songs are meant to be shared’ - Carrie Milliner

This site contains versions of my "Between the Lines" articles for Trad & Now magazine. The aim of the articles is to present some of the discoveries made during my many happy hours listening to recordings of traditional Australian singers, along with interesting fragments of incomplete songs and poems in the hope that readers may be able to help discover lost items. We have had some successes!

Follow the links below - you'll find:

- Traditional Australian song lyrics and tunes
- Yarns about the original singers and the subjects they sing about
- Relevant images
- A growing selection of sound files (mp3 and midi) and links to relevant and related sites.

Links to "Between the Lines" articles...

Trad & Now Issue #	Songs & Subjects
One	- I Don't Work for a Living - The Rambling Bachelors - Cocky's Daughter (Fragment)
Two	- The Drunkard's Child - The Dark Eyed Gypsy - Parodies of Show Me the Way to Go Home, Mademoiselle and Daisy
Three	- Molly Baun Lavery - I Landed Here in Melbourne - More parodies
Four	- The Death of Ben Hall - Moreton Bay
Five	- Goorianawa - Shearing in the Bar - Engines / Machine Guns They Rattle
Six	- The Death of the Shed Rep - Flash Sydney Shearers - Shearing Boots - About a Shearer’s Cook
Seven	- The Seizure of the Cyprus Brig
Eight	- Dunn, Gilbert and Ben Hall - My Name is Ben Hall - The Death of Ben Hall
Ten	- New Chum’s Hill - My Cobber, ‘BULLSHOT’ - Sailing to Australia
Eleven	- Hiding in the Ammunition Van - Dinky Di - The Banks of the Murray - First World War Parodies
Twelve	- Maryborough Miner - The Hat Ned Kelly Wore
Thirteen	- The Ram of Mudgee - The Identical Ram - The Bold Jack Donohoe
Fourteen	- The Old Macquarie - Sydney Road - At The Gate Each Shearer Stood
Fifteen	- Bonnie Moon / The Banks of Clyde
Sixteen	- Murder in the Red Barn and the found ballad
Seventeen	- The Capture of the Kelly Gang
Eighteen	- Gentle Annie - The Old Man Kangaroo
Nineteen	- Where is my Wandering Boy - When the Sheep are in the Fold, Jennie Dear - The Wanderers
Twenty	- Wood and Water

Of course I strongly recommend that you subscribe to Trad & Now. You can also contact the magazine for back issues if you are interested in a particular article that does not appear on-line. Click on the link below to go to the Trad & Now website.

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