- 32 min
- 12 tracks
- Decca Records
Australian Folk Songs is a 1958 album by Burl Ives. During his visit to Australia in 1952, invited there by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Ives met the Reverend Percy Jones, a professor of music at the University of Melbourne.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
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Tracks
- 1Wild Rover No More2:20
- 2Click Go the Shears4:23
- 3The Wild Colonial Boy2:19
- 4A Nautical Yarn2:01
- 5Across the Western Plains I Must Wander2:06
- 6Waltzing Matilda2:20
- 7Oh! The Springtime, It Brings on the Shearing1:41
- 8The Station Cook1:44
- 9The Dying Stockman3:45
- 10Botany Bay3:23
- 11The Old Bullock Dray2:55
- 12The Stockman's Last Bed2:34
12 tracks, 32 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Burl Ives
- Label
- Decca Records
- Released
- 1958
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Vinyl
- Country
- US
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