The Wild Colonial Boy
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title:
The Wild Colonial Boy
text:
"The Wild Colonial Boy" is a traditional anonymously penned Irish-Australian folk ballad that tells the story of a bushranger in early colonial Australia who dies during a gunfight with local police. Versions of the ballad give different names for the bushranger involved: some based on real individuals and some apparently fictional. A common theme is romanticisation of the bushranger's battle against colonial authority. According to a report in The Argus in November 1880, Ann Jones, the innkeepe
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encyclopedia
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Irish-Australian ballad
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Colonial_Boy
date created:
2006-03-27T12:49:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T19:21:48Z
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