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Mary and McFee
Contributed by
CowgirlKid
on
Tuesday, 18th February 2003 @ 10:40:00 AM in AEST
Topic:
StoryPoetry
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The outback ain't the outback
Without Mary and McFee,
Boy, the tales I could tell
Date back to 1923
'Twas just another muster
In the dry and dusty north
With nine hundred 'n' twenty cattle-
The ordinary sort.
We was all fully mounted
And I had my horse, Old Jack.
We even had the beer fridge stocked,
For when we all came back.
Now of Mary, I had heard,
A great many tales of she,
Yet I hadn't yet been told
That her mount was thee McFee.
McFee was quite the good 'ol sort,
The type that serves you well,
He was nimble on his toes
And the loyallist of hell.
Mary, on the other hand,
Was as rude as rude could be.
She was not the average sheila.
No! No sheila rode like she.
We was all mounted for the muster
Yet from Mary, we'd not heard.
She was meant to be a-coming
Though a mustering woman was absurd!
A good twenty cattlemen
Was mounted by the yard
And when the signal given
About the cattle they could charge.
We had the best of men
From as north as north can be
And every single one of them
Knew of Mary and McFee.
We finally reached the cattle
And was ready to bring 'em home
When a bull broke loose and charged away
But he was not alone.
A good many cows followed him
And all went to the sticks
We tried to follow after them
But we were not that quick.
When upon the horizon appeared a shape
'Twas Mary and McFee
After the cattle they did charge
And what a show to see.
Through the scrub they chased the bull,
To bring him to the pack
The bull went left- Mary too
And jumped upon his back
McFee followed the bucking bull,
Instinctively he went
And through his nose, Mary shoved
Some metal she had bent.
She jumped back on her mount,
Panting was McFee
And with the bull in toe
She trotted up to me
'Twas first time I had seen her
and if memory serves me well,
I took one look at her
And "An Asian!" I did yell.
An Asian in the outback?
Were they not all city folk?
And to this day, I feel that slap,
My jaw it nearly broke!
So this is what they're all about-
Mary and McFee.
Yet Mary's not the famous one
Its her mount- the brown donkey!
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CowgirlKid
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Re: Mary and McFee
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by wolfflow on
Sunday, 2nd March 2003 @ 04:40:15 PM AEST
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| lol, wonderful, wonderful, loved it, the ending is just marvellous |
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Re: Mary and McFee
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by kolbrun on
Monday, 17th March 2003 @ 09:31:49 AM AEST
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AAAWWW I really felt like I was there,the discription was so clear,Beautifully done!
yours Kolbrún |
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