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Click go the Shears
This is an Australian working song. Like all folk songs it is anonymous.
Type of song - Working song Song, it's about sheep shearing.
Tempo - Lively
Metre - 4, (4 beats in each bar)
Form - Verse A,A1 Chorus (refrain) B A1. Full form AABA
Mood - Jolly
Lyrics
Verse 1
Out on the board the old shearer stands, Grasping his shears in his thin bony hands
Fixed is his gaze on a bare-bellied yoe, Glory if he gets her, won't he make the ringer go.
Refrain
Click go the shears boys, click, click, click, Wide is his blow and his hands move quick,
The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow, And curses the old snagger with the bare-bellied joe.
Verse 1
Out on the board the old shearer stands, Grasping his shears in his thin bony hands
Fixed is his gaze on a bare-bellied yoe, Glory if he gets her, won't he make the ringer go.
Refrain
Click go the shears boys, click, click, click, Wide is his blow and his hands move quick,
The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow, And curses the old snagger with the bare-bellied joe.
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