Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:31:40 +1000
From: Kevin Woodgate 
Subject: m/misc_folk/billy_of_tea.tab


         Billy Of Tea      Australian Folk Song

Transcribed by K Woodgate

Easy melody Version

The song can be found on records by the Bushwackers, Cobbers, William Clauson
and many other Australian Folk records.
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1  You can talk of your whis-ky talk of your beer, There's some-thing much
ni-
2  So fill up your tum - bler as high as you can   And    don't you dare  tell
3  I rise in the morning as soon as it's light  And go     to  the    nose
bag
4  And while it is boiling the horses I seek     And     foll - ow  them
down
5  And at night when I camp if the days has been warm     I    give  to    my
6  Then the fire I make and the wa - ter I get   And corned beef and

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1  cer that's wait-ing us here, It sits on the fire  be-neath the gum tree,
2  me it's not the best plan, You can let all your beer and your spirits go
free
3  to see  it's   al- right     That the ants on the sugar no mortgage have
got
4  as far   as   the  creek     I take off their hobbles and let them run free
5  horses their tucker of corn   From the two in the pole to the one in the
lead
6  Damper in order,   I set    But I don't touch the grub though so hungry
I be-

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1 There's no-thing much ni-cer than  a bil-ly of tea




2 I'll   stick to  my   darl-ing   old bil-ly of tea
3 And straight away sling my old black bil-ly pot
4 Then haste   to    tuck in - to  my  bil-ly of tea
5 A billy for each holds a com - for - ta - ble feed
6 I wait till it's read - y   -   the  bil-ly of tea