Biography:
Gordon Bok stands out among the various artists that can be lumped into the "Traditional Folk" category. Born in Pennsylvania, he moved to Camden, Maine and it was there in coastal Maine that Bok was influenced by sea-faring culture and its music. He released his first album in 1965 and in 1970 signed to Folk-Legacy records, where he released a number of solo albums, as well as many collaborations with Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett. In 1990 he began releasing music on his own label, Timberhead Music.
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Other songs:
- A Little Road And A Stone To Roll
- A Most Unpleasant Way Sir
- A Song For Angela
- A Tune For November
- All My Sailors
- Along The Famine Road
- An Diran Than Soulder
- Another Bay
- Apples In The Basket
- Astoria Bar
- Banks Of The Reedy Lagoon
- Bare
- Bay Of Fundy
- Belamena
- Bheir Me O
- Blackbird
- Boat Of Silver
- Bold Reynolds
- Broken Down Squatter
- Candlelight Fisherman
- Cannery Shed
- Canso Strait
- Cape Ann
- Changing Times
- Clear Away In The Morning
- Come By The Hills
- Connemara Cradle Song
- Coshieville
- Crossing The Water
- Dillon Bay
- Do Something
- Dublin City
- Duna
- Duncan And Brady
- Easy And Slow
- Faraway Tom
- Farewell To Nova Scotia
- Fiddler Of Dooney
- Frankie On The Sheepscot
- Freedom On The Wallaby
- Get Her Into Shore
- Going On
- Handsome Cabin Boy
- Hang On John
- Harp Song Of The Dane Women
- Herring Croon
- Hie Awa
- High Barbary
- Johnny Stewart Drover
- Shearers Lament
- Song For The Mira
- Song Of The Wheelhouse Door
- Southern Cross
- Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home
- Stone On Stone
- Stormy Weather
- Sufferin
- Swell Me Net Full
- The Angelus
- The Arbutus
- The Beaches Of Lukannon
- The Bird Rock
- The Boats Of Peters River
- The Brandy Tree
- The Bressay Lullaby
- The Kind Land
- The Last Battle
- The Liza Jane
- The Maiden Hind
- The Maiden In Birds Plumage
- The Net
- The Old Bard Song
- The Old Figurehead Carver
- The Parting Glass
- The Sands Of Dee
- The Shepherds Call
- The Stable Lad
- The Swag And The Shiner
- The Texas Song
- The Wreck Of The Green Cove
- These Dry Stone Walls
- This Old Mandolin
- Threeboot Philbricks Lament
- Tie Her Up
- Travelling People
- Trochus Boats
- Turn Ye To Me
- Turning Toward The Morning
- Waiting For The Rain
- Weary Of The Darning
- Weevily Wheat Wheat In The Ear
- Western Boat
- Where Am I To Go
- Wiscasset Schooners
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Australia's a big country and Freedom's humpin' bluey
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Then Freedom couldn't stand the glare of Royalty's regalia
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But now across the mighty Main, the chains have come to bind her
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She little thought to see again, the wrongs she left behind her
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Our fathers grubbed to make a home, hard grubbin 'twas and clearin'
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They wasn't troubled much with lords when they was pioneerin'
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So we must fly a rebel flag, as others did before us
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They needn't say the fault is ours if blood should stain the wattle
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Australia's a big country and Freedom's humpin' bluey
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And Freedom's on the wallaby, oh, can't you hear her cooey?
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She's just begun to boomerang, she'll knock the tyrants silly
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She's going to light another fire and boil another billy
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Australia's a big country and Freedom's humpin' bluey
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And Freedom's on the wallaby, oh, can't you hear her cooey?
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She's just begun to boomerang, she'll knock the tyrants silly
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She's going to light another fire and boil another billy
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Our fathers toiled for bitter bread while loafers thrived beside 'f#m
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But food to eat and clothes to wear, their native land denied 'f#m
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And so they left their native land, in spite of their devotion
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And so they came, or if they stole, were sent across the ocean
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D A D A Bm Em
Then Freedom couldn't stand the glare of Royalty's regalia
A Em A
She left the loafers where they were and came out to Australia
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But now across the mighty Main, the chains have come to bind her
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She little thought to see again, the wrongs she left behind her
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Our fathers grubbed to make a home, hard grubbin 'twas and clearin'
A Em A
They wasn't troubled much with lords when they was pioneerin'
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But now that we have made this land, a garden full of promise
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Old Greed must crook his dirty hand and come to take her from us
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So we must fly a rebel flag, as others did before us
A Em A
And we must sing a rebel song and join in rebel chorus
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We'll make the tyrants feel the sting of those that they would throttle
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They needn't say the fault is ours if blood should stain the wattle
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Australia's a big country and Freedom's humpin' bluey
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And Freedom's on the wallaby, oh, can't you hear her cooey?
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She's just begun to boomerang, she'll knock the tyrants silly
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She's going to light another fire and boil another billy
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