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I bought a run a while ago, / On country rough and ridgy, / Where wallaroos and wombats grow -- / The Upper Murrumbidgee. / The grass is rather scant, it's true, / But this a fair exchange is, / The sheep can see a lovely view / By climbing up the ranges.
And She-oak Flat's the station's name, / I'm not surprised at that, sirs: / The oaks were there before I came, / And I supplied the flat, sirs. / A man would wonder how it's done, / The stock so soon decreases -- / They sometimes tumble off the run / And break themselves to pieces.