Synthesis
LISTENED to an early morning song from 3YA called "The Shearers’ Jamboree" by the Sundowners, who are apparently a group of Australians. They'd been shearing down at Mungindi and the going had been tough. When they cut out they decided, in the good old shearers’ tradition, that it was time for a bash. So there was singing and dancing and beer. They didn’t find the cook till 10 o’clock next morning. He was asleep in the pigsty with an old sow for
@ pillow. They had quite a time when they’d finished for the year. (Which, of course, rhymes with beer.) All this was sung in the manner of the singing cowboys of the mythical Wild West, and the more concrete Hollywood, with occasional bursts of yodelling. Oddly enough it seemed to fit quite well. Why not, after dil? There are wide, dry spaces in Australia, where the climate is not so very different from the prairie country of the U.S.A. Substitute sheep for steers, and there you are; synthesis of two cultures.
G. leF.
Y.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 538, 14 October 1949, Page 10
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176Synthesis New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 538, 14 October 1949, Page 10
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