WILD COLONIAL BOY, THE
Created on 20/06/2002Latest update on 03/03/2023
Artist: Banjo Patterson
Author: traditional
Label: Topic
Year: 1905
Traditional Irish/Australian ballad, first published in 1881, about a boy from Castlemaine (there's one in County Kerry and there's one in the Victoria Provence), who really became a bushranger in the 1860s down under: he robbed the Beechworth mail coach and a goldfields judge who once had sentenced him. Banjo Patterson collected the longest version. See also: Waltzing Matilda.
Covers:
- 1955:
Margaret Barry [with Michael Gorman]
- 1956:
A.L. Lloyd [on bush song collection; he was a sheep shearer for over a year in Australia in the late 1920s]
- 1957:
Original Soho Skiffle Group [pre Vipers]
- 1962:
- 1962:
- 1964:
- 1965:
Rolf Harris [Aussie]
- 1965:
- 1967:
- 1970:
Mick Jagger [in film Ned Kelly]
- 1976:
- 1981:
- 1981:
- 1982:
Cold Chisel [more Aussies]
- 1997:
- 2014:
