Click Go The Shears

Click Go The Shears folk-song. Set to »Ring the Bell, Watchman« by Henry Clay Work (1865), it describes the vigorous cycle of the sheep-shearer's nomadic life. Collected and first published by Percy Jones in the Burl Ives Folio of Australian Folksongs (1953); other versions have been collected by John Meredith (1954) and Ron Edwards (1969).