SONGS OF THE ROAD
61
Bendy's short for Bendigo. You should see him peel!
Half of him was whalebone, half of him was steel,
Fightin' weight eleven ten, five foot nine in height,
Always ready to oblige if you want a fight.
I could talk of Bendigo from here to kingdom come,
I guess before I ended you would wish your dad was dumb,
I'd tell you how he fought Ben Caunt, and how the deaf 'un fell,
But the game is done, and the men are gone—and maybe it's as well.
