The Man From Ironbark-Barry Ryan

[ti:The Man From Ironbark] [ar:Barry Ryan] [al:Orchestral Songs of Australia] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Man From Ironbark - Barry Ryan [00:04.14]It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town [00:08.05]He wandered over street and park he wandered up and down [00:12.10]He loitered here he loitered there till he was like to drop [00:17.07]Until at last in sheer despair he sought a barber's shop [00:20.66] [00:24.98]Ere shave my beard and whiskers off I'll be a man of mark [00:28.86]I'll go and do the Sydney toff up home in Ironbark [00:33.04] [00:34.99]The barber man was small and flash as barbers mostly are [00:38.89]He wore a strike-your-fancy sash he smoked a huge cigar; [00:42.90]He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee [00:47.10]He laid the odds and kept a "tote" whatever that may be [00:50.92]And when he saw our friend he whispered [00:53.18] [00:53.70]Here's a lark [00:55.00]Just watch me catch him all alive this man from Ironbark [00:59.21] [01:01.77]There were some gilded youths that sat along the barber's wall [01:05.86]Their eyes were dull their heads were flat they had no brains at all [01:09.91]To them the barber passed the wink his dexter eyelid shut [01:13.97]I'll make this bloomin' yokel think his bloomin' throat is cut [01:17.93]And as he soaped and rubbed it in he made a rude remark: [01:21.78]I s'pose the flats is pretty green up there in Ironbark [01:26.10] [01:33.59]A grunt was all reply he got; he shaved the bushman's chin [01:37.72] [01:38.55]Then made the water boiling hot and dipped the razor in [01:42.42]He raised his hand his brow grew black he paused awhile to gloat [01:46.52]Then slashed the red-hot razor-back across his victim's throat: [01:50.48]Upon the newly-shaven skin it made a livid mark [01:54.29]No doubt it fairly took him in the man from Ironbark [01:58.32] [01:59.37]He fetched a wild up-country yell might wake the dead to hear [02:03.15]And though his throat he knew full well was cut from ear to ear [02:07.05]He struggled gamely to his feet and faced the murd'rous foe: [02:10.98]You've done for me you dog I'm beat one hit before I go [02:14.96]I only wish I had a knife you blessed murdering shark [02:18.71]But you'll remember all your life the man from Ironbark [02:22.75]He lifted up his hairy paw with one tremendous clout [02:26.56]He landed on the barber's jaw and knocked the barber out [02:30.34]He set to work with nail and tooth he made the place a wreck; [02:34.29]He grabbed the nearest gilded youth and tried to break his neck [02:38.20]And all the while his throat he held to save his vital spark [02:42.19]And murder bloody murder yelled the man from Ironbark [02:46.57]A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show; [02:50.29]He tried to run the bushman in but he refused to go [02:54.28]And when at last the barber spoke he said [02:56.79]Twas all in fun [02:58.15]Twas just a little harmless joke a trifle overdone [03:02.11]A joke he cried [03:03.11]By George that's fine; a lively sort of lark; [03:05.96]I'd like to catch that murdering swine some night in Ironbark [03:10.45] [03:14.33]And now while round the shearing floor the list'ning shearers gape [03:18.72]He tells the story o'er and o'er and brags of his escape [03:22.34] [03:22.89]Them barber chaps what keeps a tote [03:25.04]By George I've had enough [03:27.25]One tried to cut my bloomin' throat but thank the Lord it's tough [03:36.57] [03:41.18]And whether he's believed or no there's one thing to remark [03:45.19] [03:46.87]That flowing beards are all the go way up in Ironbark