Bush ballads were a huge part of our past. Writers like Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson really captured what life was like for early settlers. You may have seen the movie The Man from Snowy River, which is based on a poem. Clancy of the Overflow always makes me weepy : 'For he sees the vision splendid, of the sunlit plains extended, and at night the endless beauty of the never ending stars'. The Drovers Wife was really the first attempt to capture what life on the land was like for women and kids... It was always about the men and their stories. I know that you love to read, and I think you would enjoy both these authors. 🌻
I had a footy coach who recited the whole man from snowy river poem before a Grand Final in 1988. I was playing for Latrobe Uni and the Uni boys ate it up. I was done after rwo verses. Culture not my bag I guess
@@iankearns774I'm not sure if I would find that motivational, but different strokes I guess! Maybe the first time? But a big game game?! That's wild! I wonder what his thought process was? Footy is similar to wild brumbies!
@@iankearns774 yup it sure was terrible there are so many different and way better versions out there i have no idea what they were thinking when doing this pile of crap
The film clip was telling the true story or as close to it of Ben Hall Australian bush ranger .One of my favourites who unlike Ned Kelly never killed anybody and was still but down like a rapid dog being shot over twenty times as he woke up.
Good song but agree with you about the singing style Expect there are other versions of this. You mentioned reading a book set in Castlemaine - I am a fan of your channel and happen to live in Castlemaine in Victoria - 1940’s gold rush history still very much on view by way of many miner’s and Victorian era cottages making up a lot of the town’s residences.
The bush ranger Ned Kelly used to burn all the banks paper work too…..and then throw a party for the town he just robbed with dancing and free drinks for all.
Typical of the "Commonwealth of Australia" to spoil a good song. I would have gone with The Irish Rovers, Slim Dusty or Smoky Dawson. But thanks for the reaction
the singer and even the instruments of this version do not make sense to me it sounds more suitable for opera or even medieval music not for a 19th century Australian bush ballad or Irish folk song
Bush ballads were a huge part of our past. Writers like Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson really captured what life was like for early settlers. You may have seen the movie The Man from Snowy River, which is based on a poem. Clancy of the Overflow always makes me weepy :
'For he sees the vision splendid, of the sunlit plains extended, and at night the endless beauty of the never ending stars'.
The Drovers Wife was really the first attempt to capture what life on the land was like for women and kids... It was always about the men and their stories. I know that you love to read, and I think you would enjoy both these authors. 🌻
I had a footy coach who recited the whole man from snowy river poem before a Grand Final in 1988.
I was playing for Latrobe Uni and the Uni boys ate it up.
I was done after rwo verses.
Culture not my bag I guess
@@iankearns774I'm not sure if I would find that motivational, but different strokes I guess! Maybe the first time? But a big game game?! That's wild! I wonder what his thought process was? Footy is similar to wild brumbies!
Opera singing kind of spoils it for me.
I am surprised a few others thought the Cold Chisel song was the same song.
Should be sung as a bush ballad, that was a bit grating to my ears.
@@iankearns774 yup it sure was terrible there are so many different and way better versions out there i have no idea what they were thinking when doing this pile of crap
For sure, definitely different lyrics to Chisel’s song. Guy Pearce, Australian actor was in that clip.
The film clip was telling the true story or as close to it of Ben Hall Australian bush ranger .One of my favourites who unlike Ned Kelly never killed anybody and was still but down like a rapid dog being shot over twenty times as he woke up.
Good song but agree with you about the singing style Expect there are other versions of this. You mentioned reading a book set in Castlemaine - I am a fan of your channel and happen to live in Castlemaine in Victoria - 1940’s gold rush history still very much on view by way of many miner’s and
Victorian era cottages making up a lot of the town’s residences.
I was in Castlemaine a few months ago to see Tropical F*ck Storm. Great band name. Great band.
I’ve never heard a smooth version of this song before!
The bush ranger Ned Kelly used to burn all the banks paper work too…..and then throw a party for the town he just robbed with dancing and free drinks for all.
Typical of the "Commonwealth of Australia" to spoil a good song. I would have gone with The Irish Rovers, Slim Dusty or Smoky Dawson. But thanks for the reaction
the singer and even the instruments of this version do not make sense to me it sounds more suitable for opera or even medieval music not for a 19th century Australian bush ballad or Irish folk song
I agree, but in my ignorance I know nothing about bush ballads. I will try to remedy that fact.