Australian Folk Songs

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Australian Folk Songs
Studio album by Burl Ives
Released	1958
Genre	Folk
Label	Decca

Note: This article is linked to the discography in the Burl Ives article.

Australian Folk Songs (Decca DL 8749, 1958) is an album by Burl Ives, one of the byproducts of his visit to Australia in 1952. Invited there by the Australia Broadcasting Commission, Ives met Dr. Percy Jones, a professor of music. The two men compiled a book of Australian folk songs, and Ives recorded an album of the songs, "collected and arranged" by Percy. Those songs were later released in the U.S. as Australian Folk Songs.

The cover of the album depicts Ives in a stereotypical Australian setting, standing in front of a poster of a kangaroo and interacting with a koala.^[1]

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

1. "Wild Rover No More "
2. "Click Go the Shears"
3. "The Wild Colonial Boy"
4. "A Nautical Yarn"
5. "Across the Western Plains I Must Wander"
6. "Waltzing Matilda"

[edit] Side two

1. "Oh! The Springtime, It Brings on the Shearing"
2. "The Station Cook"
3. "The Dying Stockman"
4. "Botany Bay"
5. "The Old Bullock Dray"
6. "The Stockman's Last Bed"

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