Examples
Some examples of popular bush ballad poems and songs include:
Traditional:
- The Wild Colonial Boy
- Click Go The Shears
- The Eumeralla Shore
- The Drover's Dream
- The Queensland Drover
- The Dying Stockman
- Moreton Bay
The Bush Bards:
- The Ballad of the Drover by Henry Lawson
- On the Range by Barcroft Boake
- The Man From Snowy River by Banjo Paterson
- Waltzing Matilda by Paterson
- Clancy of the Overflow by Paterson
Modern writers and singers:
- When the Rain Tumbles Down in July by Slim Dusty
- Leave Him in the Longyard by Kelly Dixon (versions by Slim Dusty and Lee Kernaghan)
- Three Rivers Hotel by Stan Coster (versions by Slim Dusty and John Williamson)
- 'Ballad of Camooweal sung by Slim Dusty
- The Biggest Disappointment by Joy McKean (sung by Slim Dusty and Troy Cassar-Daley)
- Mallee Boy by John Williamson
- Diamantina Drover by John Williamson
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