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The Loaded Dog – Stan Coster

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Henry Lawson told a story so to him it does belong
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Stan Coster wrapped it in a tune to tell it in this song
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It's a tale about three bushmen, prospecting for gold
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And the saga of the loaded dog as Henry Lawson told
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They had heard about a reef of gold, out near Stony Creek
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And so they sank a shaft and struck hard rock at seven feet
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They had pitched a tent and made their camp, in a patch of scrub
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And Dave and Jim were down the shaft while Andy cooked some grub
They drilled the rock and blasted it progress was hard and slow
Still they persisted with the patience gold prospectors know
Dave Regan he loved fishing, and Andy Page did too
But now that it was winter they were catching very few
So Dave suggested they blow up the big hole down the creek
And trade what fish they didn't want to the butcher for some beef
So Andy cooked some spuds for lunch and put the billy on
And while the chops were fryin' started makin' up a bomb
With miner's blasting powder, wrapped up in calico
Then tightly rolled in sailcloth, with whipchord then was sewed
A six-foot fuse inserted, with the end split for to light
The bomb was dipped in tallow then, to make it watertight
They had a big retriever pup with a permanent foolish grin
And no matter what they threw away he'd fetch it back again
He watched where Andy hid the bomb away from everyone
And when Dave and Jim came up for lunch the dog began his fun
He had the cartridge in his mouth as 'round the fire he came
The fuse began to hiss and spit when the end fell in the flame
Well the three men bolted different ways, through the bracken furn
While Tommy thought it was a game and chased each one in turn
Jim shinned it up a sapling Tommy waited underneath
A silly grin across his face with the bomb between his teeth
The fuse was getting' shorter, so Jim sprang from the tree
And bolted for the pub while Tommy chased him playfully
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He charged into the bar-room, and quickly slammed the door
But when Tommy couldn't get inside he went under the floor
A savage yellow cattle-dog was waiting underneath
He wondered what that big pup had it might be good to eat
The cattle-dog he chased him out and bit him really hard
So Tommy dropped the cartridge there, in the hotel yard
The yellow dog stood over it, and sniffed it up and down
And suddenly the bomb went off and rocked that little town
Some saddle-horses broke their reins and galloped down the street
And pieces of that cattle-dog were blown five hundred feet
Well Dave and Jim and Andy, went quietly to their tent
While Tommy grinned his broadest grin, pleased with the day's event
What could have been disaster in the pub at Stony Creek
Turned out to be a thing the bush folk laughed about for weeks
And travellers heard the story, and the story got around
The story of a loaded dog that terrorized a town.

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