Working conditions for sheep shearers in 19th century Australia were not good.
Farmers always gave a special supper to the sheep shearers when they had finished their work.
The song details a day's work for a sheep shearer in the days before machine shears.
He became an accountant, although he also worked as a station hand and sheep shearer.
This grass is not as tall as so many of the others and can be cut down easily with sheep shearers.
The volatile temperament of the Irish sheep shearer would flash out but it was soon over.
Prior to entering politics, he was a truck driver, a farmer, a sheep shearer and a small business owner.
Bill was a good sheep shearer and could do a hundred sheep a day at ten cents a head.
- 21 July 1920) was a legendary Australian sheep shearer at the end of the 19th century.
They met with Chris and some sheep shearers.