Reply With QuoteOn the topic of rain, probably the best rain somg I've heard. Could be because I know the places they sing about. Hang in there , rain will come.
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SubscriberThis one's for V8ian, send her down Hughie!!! [ My old Dad told me that send her down Hughie was what his Grandfather , who was with the 9th Battalion QLD, first ashore at Gallipoli, said the diggers yelled out as the rain pelted down on them ,so it must have been around before then]
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SubscriberOn the topic of rain, probably the best rain somg I've heard. Could be because I know the places they sing about. Hang in there , rain will come.
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I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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Originally Posted by bob10
Bob, I was never in the 9th Battalion, but I have been known to "lighten the load" and have partaken of more than one refreshing ale at the Garradunga pub.
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
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SubscriberI knew you'd understand. And the boys from the 9th, they would too.Bob, I was never in the 9th Battalion, but I have been known to "lighten the load" and have partaken of more than one refreshing ale at the Garradunga pub.
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
Swaggie
what a beautiful song.
I love Australian folk music and have played in and been part of a number of folk clubs around the country
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Do I have something special for you. You must know of Bill Scott, a legend in Folk circles in Australia. WW2 sailor, train driver, cane cutter. Poet. Enough said,
" Hey rain, the songs and stories of Bill Scott. "
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I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
Swaggie
Hughie is an Australian slang abbreviation for Jupiter Pluvius, the Roman god of rain.
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Swaggie
it certainly is....I just can't work out which bit was abbreviated and how it became slang or vice versa.
Swaggie
The pronunciation. In Latin Jupiter is Hyoopiter which got truncated to Hughie
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SubscriberI think the origin of the phrase will never be absolutely decided upon. There are a number of options put forward, going all the way back to 1599, when the Bishop St Hugh of Lincoln, a Saint traditionally associated with rain, was about. Corruption of the words Jupiter [Juie] Zeus [Zuie] and Yahweh, has been put forward. One I had not heard of before is a corruption of the aboriginal word ' Yowie " , one language groups word for thunder. Whichever it was, it's a great example of Australia's classless society , where even God can be treated with familiarity. And long may it be so.
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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