Click Go the Shears

Click Go the Shears - Lazy Harry

Out on the board the old shearer stands

Grasping his shears in his thin bony hands;

Fixed is his eye on a bare-bellied joe

Glory if he gets her won't he make the ringer go

Click go the shears boys click click click

Wide is his blow and his hands move quick

The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow

And curses the old snagger with the bare-bellied joe

In the middle of the floor in his cane-bottomed chair

Sits the boss of the board with his eyes everywhere

Notes well each fleece as it comes to the screen

Paying strict attention that it's taken off clean

Click go the shears boys click click click

Wide is his blow and his hands move quick

The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow

And curses the old snagger with the bare-bellied joe

There stands a tar-boy where waiting in demand

With his blackened tar-pot in his tarry hand

Spies one old sheep with a cut upon its back

Listen what he's waiting for it's "Tar here Jack "

Click go the shears boys click click click

Wide is his blow and his hands move quick

The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow

And curses the old snagger with the bare-bellied joe

And the shearing is all over

That we've all got our cheques

So roll up your swags and it's off down the track

The first pub that we come to

It's there we'll have a spree

And everyone that comes along

It's "come a drink with me "

Click go the shears boys click click click

Wide is his blow and his hands move quick

The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow

And curses the old snagger

With the bare-bellied joe

Click go the shears boys click click click

Wide is his blow and his hands move quick

The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow

And curses the old snagger with the bare-bellied joe