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A Thousand Mile Away 
A Thousand Mile Away 
Hurrah for the old stock saddle, hurrah for the stockwhip too Hurrah for the baldy pony boys to carry me westward ho To carry me westward ho my boys that's where the cattle stray On the far Barcoo where they eat Nardoo a thousand mile away 
Then give your horses rein across the open plain We'll crack our whips like a thunderbolt nor care what some folks say And a running we'll bring home them cattle at Narome On the far Barcoo where they eat Nardoo a thousand mile away 
Knee deep in grass we've got to pass the truth I'm bound to tell Where in three weeks them cattle get as fat as they can swell As fat as they can swell my lads a thousand pound they weigh On the far Barcoo and the Flinders too a thousand mile away 
So fit me up with a snaffle and a four or a five inch spur And fourteen foot of greenhide whip to chop the flaming fur I'll yard them flaming cattle in away that's safe to swear I'll make them Queensland cattlemen sit back in the saddle and stare 
Hurrah for the old stock saddle, hurrah for the stockwhip too Hurrah for the baldy pony boys to carry me westward ho To carry me westward ho my boys that's where the cattle stray On the far Barcoo where they eat Nardoo a thousand mile away 
Note: First published in the Queenslander in 1894 
Stewart and Keesing note in their Old Bush Songs : "According to our correspondent R.C.Lethbridge this song was written by Charles Flower, who once owned a station, 'Roma Downs', in the Maranoa district".
 The brothers Horace and Charles Flower were keen songwriters in the 1880's - 90's. Charles Flower's manuscripts are in the Oxley Library, Brisbane.
 Ron Edwards suggests in The Big Book of Australian Folk Song that Paterson probably got his version from the Hurd collection (1894 - 1900). More recently Phillip Butterss discovered that the Hurd collection consists of cuttings taken from the Queenslander and that many of the songs in Paterson's Old bush Songs appear to 
come from that source.
 The version here is taken from the singing of A.L.Lloyd. MG