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CLICK GO THE SHEARS 
Series:   AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S CLASSICS
Author:   Henry Lawson  
Illustrator:   Robert Ingpen    Illustrator info     
RRP:   $14.99
Online Price :  $13.50
10+ Copy Price :  $12.75         
Format:   Paperback 
Type of Book:   Australian Picture Book 
ISBN:   9780207180941
Published:   9/12/2010
Availability:   Out Of Print
This title is no longer in print and is not in stock. You may still order this book and while it is not available currently, you can register an order. If it reprints within 2 years we will automatically supply your order. After 2 years your backorder for Out of Print titles will be deleted, unless you advise us otherwise.


DESCRIPTION:

Click Go the Shears was probably the most wide pread and enduring of the old-time shearers' songs. It was still frequently to be heard in the sheds of the Western Line of NSW in the last half of the twentieth century. The tune came from an American Civil War song, Ring the Bell, Watchman, and was later used for the revival hymn Pull for the Shore, and for a number of temperance anthems, including one from the Salvation Army. The opening verse of Click Go the Shears is a parody of Ring the Bell, written by Henry Lawson, who wrote about the song in his essay ‘The Songs They Used to Sing’. Versions don’t seem to differ much - the song was first published in written format in 1946 in an article by Percy Jones. The version in this book is as sung by A L Lloyd in the 1950s.



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