Jacky Howe chords by Ted Egan

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Verse 1
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The shearing industry legends
have always centred around the top tally shearers,
the guns.
When I saw the world record tally
of 410 fully grown sheep
in 1972,
I was being paid 22 per
100 sheep.
Of course I was shearing with machines,
using the 2 .5 inch width combs.
When my 7 hours 48 minutes
ordeal was over
and I stood erect,
thinking my back just might be broken.
I couldn't help thinking
of the immortal
Jack Howe, the king of shearers,
who would have earned three pounds,
six dollars,
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when he shore 321 sheep with hand shears
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in 7 hours 40 minutes in 1892.
Jack Howe's blade tally
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has never been beaten.
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There's really just one champion,
Australia's number one
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You ask any shearer
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who was best under the sun
And he'll say the bloke from Queensland,
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Jaggie Howe, the Warwick Gun
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Yes, Jaggie Howe from Warwick,
he's the gun
Jaggie Howe from Warwick,
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he's Australia's number one
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His long blow's a certain
pleasing
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The look from the razor
to the sneezer goes
Take it out on the Warwick,
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and he's the gun
Just watch the Warwick gun mate,
as he drives into the pen
Moves in fast, grabs his sheep,
and it's down the boards of men
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He whips up all the belly wool,
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his shears are movin' quick
And he's got the knockers on his blades,
and you barely hear them click
It's fine leg, then the top knot,
and the neck is open wide
Then he drops it on the long blow,
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just watch those three bows glide
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Down he comes on the whipping side,
there's the fleece, it's done
And it's walloway! shouts
Jaggie Howe,
for he's the Warwick Gun
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Yes, Jaggie Howe from Warwick,
he's the gun
Jaggie Howe from Warwick,
he's Australia's number one
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His long blow's a certain pleasing,
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like from the breezer to the sneezer
Here goes Jackie Howe from
Warwick
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and he's a gun
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When the squatters tried to
smash the shearers in 1891
In the forefront of the unions,
Jackie Howe, the Warwick gun
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They simply sought a decent rate
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to shear the squatters' sheep
But for far too long
the rates were strong
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and enmities ran deep
But Jackie Howe's remembered,
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not for politics, but speed
And throughout Australia's
shearing sheds,
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they talk of one great deed
On 10 October, 92,
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he's tallied 3 -2 -1
And ever since, they've called him
Jackie Howe, the Warwick Gun
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Yes, Jackie Howe from Warwick,
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and he's the gun
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Jackie Howe from Warwick,
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he's Australia's number one
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His long blows of sun,
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pleasing the wind from the breeze
And to the stays it goes,
Jaggie Howe from Warrington,
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he's the gun
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Yes, Jaggie Howe from Warrington,
he's the gun
Jaggie Howe from Warrington,
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he's Australia's number one
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His one blow's a certain blazing
look from the breeze
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And to the stays it goes,
Jaggie Howe from Warrington,
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he's the gun
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Yes, Jaggie Howe from
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Warrington, he's the gun
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