"It's a merry (bally) Christmas
For a bullocky, by Jove;
Gee, back, Strawberry! way there, Diamond!
'Nough to sicken any cove!
Got a surplus, this 'ere Gov'ment!
If they had to drive these loads
They would spend their bally surplus
On these (bally) country roads!"
"Mind that (bally) saplin' Baldy!
Strike me pink, but this is sweet!
They must think the only roadway
Is in (bally) George's Street!
It's a merry (bally) Christmas
But it ain't no (bally) joke;
With the roadways left in this way
For a bally country bloke."
First published in The Queanbeyan Age, 20 December 1907
