
Denis Gibbons grew up in a small pub at Port Elliot in South Australia, and was taught by the Sisters of Mercy at Victor Harbour and the Christian Brothers at Rostrevor College in Adelaide. He had many jobs before going into radio in 1951. He spent 20 years with the Macquarie Broadcasting Network and in 1982 he received an Advance Australia Award, for ‘his outstanding contribution to Australian Folk Music’. He has three children and five grandchildren.
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Botany Bay
The Drover’s Dream
Wallaby Stew
Old Bullock Dray
Black Velvet Band
Andy's Gone With Cattle
Old Bark Hut
Wild Rover
Jim Jones
Drover's Dream
Catalpa
Last Farewell To Sterling
The Drover's Dream
Springtime It Brings On The Shearing
Lime Juice Tub
Bold Jack Donahue
Another Fall Of Rain
The Dying Stockman
The Wild Colonial Boy
South Australia
Waltzing Matilda
The Old Palmer Song
Wild Colonial Boy
The Hut That's Upside Down
Flash Jack From Gundagai
Look Out Below
Bold Tommy Payne
The Gum Tree Canoe
The Old Bark Hut
Nine miles from Gundagai
Ballad of Kelly's Gang
Frank Gardiner
Denis O'Reilly
The Miner
The Old Bullock Dray
Back Block Shearer
Waltzing Matilda Queensland version
Tambaroora Gold
The Blue Tail Fly
Waltzing Matilda (Queensland)
Plains of Emu
The Riddle Song
The Drovers Dream
Bush Girl
With Me Swag All On Me Shoulder
The Spinning Wheel
Old Black Billy
Blue Tail Fly
Lazy Harry's
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