Now the shearing is all over, and the wool is coming down I mean to get a wife, my boys, when I go down to town For everything has got a mate that brings itself to view From the little paddy-melon to the big kangaroo
Chorus So roll up your blankets and let us make a push I'll take you up the country and show you the bush I'll be bound such a chance you won't get another day So roll up and take possession of the old bullock dray
I'll teach you the whip and the bullocks how to flog You'll be my off-sider when we're fast in the bog Hitting out both left and right and every other way Making skin and blood and hair fly round the old bullock dray
Good beef and damper, of that you'll get enough When boiling in the bucket such a walloper of duff Our mates, they'll all dance and sing upon our wedding day To the music of the bells around the old bullock dray
There'll be lots of piccaninnies, you must remember that There'll be Buckjumping Maggie and Leather-belly Pat There'll be Stringybark Peggy and Green-eyed Mike Yes, my colonial, as many as you like
Now that we are married and have children five times three No one lives so happy as my little wife and me She goes out a-hunting to while away the day While I take down the wool upon the old bullock dray