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[Aus] ‘Bluey Brink’ in J. Lahey Great Aus. Folk Songs 79: Bluey drank acid without cracking a boo, / Saying, ‘That’s the stuff, Jimmy! Strike me stone dead, / This’ll make me the ringer of Stevenson’s shed!’.
at crack (a) boo (v.) under crack, v.1
[Aus] ‘Jackie Jackie’ in J. Lahey Great Aus. Folk Songs 12: Jackie Jackie was a smart young feller [...] Yet he sat by the river of his people / Underneath an old gum tree.
at jacky jacky, n.
[Aus] ‘Westralia’ in J. Lahey Great Aus. Folk Songs 13: Land of forests, fleas and flies, / Blighted hopes and blighted eyes, / Art thou hell in earth’s disguise, / Westralia?
at Westralia, n.
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