tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969289909558312988.post6198390244082587023..comments2023-10-20T23:53:15.183+10:00Comments on An Australian Folk Song A Day: The Banks of the Condaminecloudyjohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16470840323861846078noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969289909558312988.post-90359330513339214682011-01-31T21:30:22.612+10:002011-01-31T21:30:22.612+10:00" .... sandy cobblers - cobbler is an old-fas..." .... sandy cobblers - cobbler is an old-fashioned word for shoemaker; the sheep which the shearer left in his pen until the end of a work period were likely to be hard to shear (because, for example, there was a lot of sand in their wool); such sheep were kept till the last and so - in the stereotyped shearers' joke - compared with the cobbler, who stuck to his last .... "<br />http://www.garyshearston.com/ <br />(however, the second verse of Duke Tritton's "Shearing in a Bar" displays their aversion a little better!)<br />Baaaaaaa!!eweanmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04802382309900490507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969289909558312988.post-2065328095273019262011-01-29T15:22:09.865+10:002011-01-29T15:22:09.865+10:00Do you think he really had her best interests at h...Do you think he really had her best interests at heart, or was he just stringing her along? It all sounds a bit too noble to be true. Maybe I'm just a bit of a cynic. Shades of 'The Drover's Boy' here, too, aren't there. By the way, what's a 'sandy cobbler'?Stephen Whitesidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02005908290780632531noreply@blogger.com