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Clear to me hell I got a new dress
No full textParody on traditional song.Mercer: numerous refernces - see C-128, 64-17
There's a tree in the green wood, I love best of all
No full textGirl describes fighting between English and Irish soldiers and the eventual killing of her lover.Mercer: Peacock (1954), p. 133; Peacock (1965), p. 471
Oh, we landed in Cape Onion Cove
No full textBawdy song - young man makes love to a maid, she becomes pregnant, he is arrested and advises all other maids to protect their "tush".Cray, Ed, "The Erotic Muse", p. 31-32; Edwards, Ron, "Australian Folk Songs", 1972, p. 118; Peters, p. 266; Kennedy, p. 431
I got a girl in Skinner's Harbour
No full textParody, sung to the tune of Mussels in the Corner.No references