Re: ODD DESTINATIONS

["JohnMcCandless" <johnmc@topend.com.au>]

Derick Wuen <cullend@webone.com.au> wrote in article
<376e2d96.0@iridium.webone.com.au>...
> Lets see if I can remember a ditty based on reading the QR timetable, and
> I've been to many of the places. Apologies for any mispellings
corrections
> welcomed

Took me a while, but i found it in "Australian Railway Journeys" Collins,
1985,
compiled by John Cook.  (Though it's the sort of thing i would have
expected
to find in something written by Colin Taylor...)

Originally "Auf die schwa`bsche Eisebahne" (umlaut over the "a")
Orally transmitted German folksong from the Upper Burnett

 
> To the tune of little brown jug......
 
> There are places where one dines
> On the Queensland railway lines
> Private individuals
> Also run refreshment stalls
> 
> Chorus:
> 
Bogan-tugan, Rollingstone
Mungar, Murgon, Marathon(e)
Guthalungra, Pinkenba,
Wanko, Yaamba - ha, ha, ha!

Pies and coffee,  baths and showers
Are supplied at Charters Towers
At Mackay etc the rule prevails
Of restricting showers to males.....

> Chorus

Males and females, high and dry
Hang around a Durikai,
Boora-Mugga, Djarawong,
Giligulgul, Wonglepong

> 
> Iron rations come in handy
> On the way to Dirranbandi
> Passengers have died of hunger
During halts at Garradunga
  
> Chorus
>  
Let us toast, before we part,
> Those who travel stout of heart
> Drunk or sober, rain or shine
> On a Queensland railway line.
 


Not a bad recollection at all, Derick.

John McCandless
Cloncurry NW Qld