A Collection: A B (banjo) Paterson

[billy]

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Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson 1864-1941

Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson OBE (17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include "Waltzing Matilda", "The Man from Snowy River" and "Clancy of the Overflow".

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POEMS OF A.B. (BANJO) PATERSON

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[just mercedes]

It's been so long since I heard someone read Mulga Bill's bicycle. I love it!

[rayheinrich]

Ought to add "The Man from Snowy River".
This is the stuff Texans pretend to be.

[billy]

if you scroll down you'll see the man from snowy river..okay the metaphorical man

i'm fine with the sound of horses in the snowy poem

[rayheinrich]

if you scroll down you'll see the man from snowy river..okay the metaphorical man

Well, damn, mine doesn't scroll down, it stops at 11.

And, call me old-fashioned, but I just hate those added sound-effects/soundtracks. Hate!
(Not that I'm unwilling to take it; if it's the only available, so be it.)

[billy]

come on ray, it should have a scroll bar on the right hand side?

[rayheinrich]

come on ray, it should have a scroll bar on the right hand side?

Yeah, but on my infernal machine it just scrolls to 11.

[billy]

[billy]

thanks for the heads up ray. i'll see if i can put it right later.

[billy]

if you click the greek building icon it will take you to where you can see everything for the time being.

[rayheinrich]

thanks for the heads up ray. i'll see if i can put it right later.

Thanks. I heard that one years ago, your Banjo post brought back memories.
Banjo, at least many years back, was much worshiped down here in Texas.
I'd never heard most of those poems though. Thanks for putting them up.

I said: "This is the stuff Texans pretend to be."
I should have said "modern-day Texans".
I'm sure the old ones were every bit the equal. Or so my grandpa used to
tell me -- he was known to embroider a bit.  For part of his life he was a
traveling salesman; he sold barbed-wire to the ranches. He got the King Ranch
contract for a few years, made him somewhat rich -- not that it took him much
time to go through it. He carried a 32 tucked in the small of his back.
"A woman's gun", he'd say, "but it's enough to give them pause".
(I still have that 32, got it from my grandma.)

[billy]

last try, i think i fixed it, have no idea how or why the lobster quadrille is in there [hhhh]

[rayheinrich]

if you click the greek building icon it will take you to where you can see everything for the time being.

Yes, that works fine... well, so much for what else I'd thought of accomplishing tonight.
Damn, such wonderful stuff -- I'm just a kid full of romance I guess.

[billy]

i think real men are real men where ever they come from. if you spot any more with the same problem please let me know so i can fix them.
thanks again kid

[rayheinrich]

i think real men are real men where ever they come from. if you spot any more with the same problem please let me know so i can fix them.
thanks again kid

Ok, well, now, shit, it's working.

Except that 17 isn't Banjo; it's labeled "hhhh" and it's Carroll's The Lobster-Quadrille
A unique counter-point, I must say.

Oh, and I love the new format, everything in a scroll-down box. Cool.

[rayheinrich]

i think real men are real men where ever they come from. if you spot any more with the same problem please let me know so i can fix them.
thanks again kid

Ok, well, now, shit, it's working.

Except that 17 isn't Banjo; it's labeled "hhhh" and it's Carroll's The Lobster-Quadrille
A unique counter-point, I must say.

Oh, and I love the new format, everything in a scroll-down box. Cool.

Well, got out of sync there, but everything's fine.

All this audio stuff is great. While it's important to a writer to read lots of poetry, I think it's even
more important to hear it read. I've always thought of "spoken" as it's true form. (Call me
old-fashioned again.)

Maybe it should have its own heading, not be mixed in with the other stuff?

[ellajam]

This format works on Ipad, yay, wish it was all like this (Not your fault I need a new laptop and I keep my work puters on mute. ). You're working your ass off, billy, much appreciated.

[billy]

see here

the reason it's there is because the orator simply added it in without telling anyone

i think real men are real men where ever they come from. if you spot any more with the same problem please let me know so i can fix them.
thanks again kid

Ok, well, now, shit, it's working.

Except that 17 isn't Banjo; it's labeled "hhhh" and it's Carroll's The Lobster-Quadrille
A unique counter-point, I must say.

Oh, and I love the new format, everything in a scroll-down box. Cool.

Well, got out of sync there, but everything's fine.

All this audio stuff is great. While it's important to a writer to read lots of poetry, I think it's even
more important to hear it read. I've always thought of "spoken" as it's true form. (Call me
old-fashioned again.)

Maybe it should have its own heading, not be mixed in with the other stuff?

[billy]

it should soon all be like this. it's a lot quicker for me than doing separate mp3's in separate post

This format works on Ipad, yay, wish it was all like this (Not your fault I need a new laptop and I keep my work puters on mute. ). You're working your ass off, billy, much appreciated.