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Black Billy Tea – New Zealand Ballads choose

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[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 6: I’d sooner have a cup o’ tea, Than all your blinking beer.
at blinking, adj.
[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 32: I’ve been out here a year, / No races, girls or beer, / And I think it’s time I took a real good blow!
at blow-out, n.1
[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 27: When Dad was a boy / Bullocky’s joy, / The only jam they knew, / Was treacle – black.
at bullocky’s joy (n.) under bullocky, n.
[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 58: Chasing sheep up and down the ruddy hills, / To bust one cheque a year / On racehorses and beer.
at bust, v.1
[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 29: Says Billy the Dog to Jimmy the Rat, / ‘Let’s squat and chew the rag’.
at chew the rag, v.
[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 74: There is a good cheque you can earn, [...] cutting some cow-cocky’s scrub.
at cow cocky (n.) under cow, n.1
[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 30: A sly grog shop / Can’t call a cop, / So that fellow will never complain.
at sly-grog, n.
[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 45: When you have got to build a railway through the hills! / It takes an awful lot of ‘jelly’, shovels and picks.
at jelly, n.2
[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 92: I’ve just had a ring from the local ‘john’.
at john, n.1
[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 9: I used to go to every show / Where they had a buck-jump ring. / The wildest moke I thought a joke, / I really had a fling.
at moke, n.1
[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 49: Well get that old Buster [i.e. a wild boar] ! Rip, split or bust!
at rip, shit or bust under rip, v.
[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 39: The men get short and snaky / And they have their little tiffs.
at snaky, adj.1
[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 37: The farmers encouraged the swaggies to move freely up and down the country following the seasonal work.
at swaggie, n.
[NZ] J. Charles Black Billy Tea 46: He keeps those woollies on the move.
at woolly, n.
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