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:
Margaret Barry [with Michael Gorman]
A.L. Lloyd [on bush song collection; he was a sheep shearer for over a year in Australia in the late 1920s]
Original Soho Skiffle Group [pre Vipers]
Rolf Harris [Aussie]
Mick Jagger [in film Ned Kelly]
Cold Chisel [more Aussies]
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