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+more_label: Lyrics    
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+track_artist:  John O'Brien
+
+    
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+“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,  
+In accents most forlorn,  
+Outside the church, ere Mass began,  
+One frosty Sunday morn.  
+  
+The congregation stood about,  
+Coat-collars to the ears,  
+And talked of stock, and crops, and drought,  
+As it had done for years.  
+  
+“It’s looking crook,” said Daniel Croke;  
+“Bedad, it’s cruke, me lad,  
+For never since the banks went broke  
+Has seasons been so bad.”  
+  
+“It’s dry, all right,” said young O’Neil,  
+With which astute remark  
+He squatted down upon his heel  
+And chewed a piece of bark.  
+  
+And so around the chorus ran  
+“It’s keepin’ dry, no doubt.”  
+“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,  
+“Before the year is out.”  
+  
+“The crops are done; ye’ll have your work  
+To save one bag of grain;  
+From here way out to Back-o’-Bourke  
+They’re singin’ out for rain.  
+  
+“They’re singin’ out for rain,” he said,  
+“And all the tanks are dry.”  
+The congregation scratched its head,  
+And gazed around the sky.  
+  
+“There won’t be grass, in any case,  
+Enough to feed an ass;  
+There’s not a blade on Casey’s place  
+As I came down to Mass.”  
+  
+“If rain don’t come this month,” said Dan,  
+And cleared his throat to speak —  
+“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,  
+“If rain don’t come this week.”  
+  
+A heavy silence seemed to steal  
+On all at this remark;  
+And each man squatted on his heel,  
+And chewed a piece of bark.  
+  
+“We want an inch of rain, we do,”  
+O’Neil observed at last;  
+But Croke “maintained” we wanted two  
+To put the danger past.  
+  
+“If we don’t get three inches, man,  
+Or four to break this drought,  
+We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,  
+“Before the year is out.”  
+  
+In God’s good time down came the rain;  
+And all the afternoon  
+On iron roof and window-pane  
+It drummed a homely tune.  
+  
+And through the night it pattered still,  
+And lightsome, gladsome elves  
+On dripping spout and window-sill  
+Kept talking to themselves.  
+  
+It pelted, pelted all day long,  
+A-singing at its work,  
+Till every heart took up the song  
+Way out to Back-o’-Bourke.  
+  
+And every creek a banker ran,  
+And dams filled overtop;  
+“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,  
+“If this rain doesn’t stop.”  
+  
+And stop it did, in God’s good time;  
+And spring came in to fold  
+A mantle o’er the hills sublime  
+Of green and pink and gold.  
+  
+And days went by on dancing feet,  
+With harvest-hopes immense,  
+And laughing eyes beheld the wheat  
+Nid-nodding o’er the fence.  
+  
+And, oh, the smiles on every face,  
+As happy lad and lass  
+Through grass knee-deep on Casey’s place  
+Went riding down to Mass.  
+  
+While round the church in clothes genteel  
+Discoursed the men of mark,  
+And each man squatted on his heel,  
+And chewed his piece of bark.  
+  
+“There’ll be bush-fires for sure, me man,  
+There will, without a doubt;  
+We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,  
+“Before the year is out.”  
+  
+[Editor- This poem by John O’Brien was published in Around the Boree Log and Other Verses, 1921.]  
+  
+Published in - 
+John O’Brien. Around the Boree Log and Other Verses, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1921  
+  
+Editor’s notes -  
+bedad = an Irish exclamation, a euphemism for “By God”  
+cruke = presumably “crook”, being unwell or not good (such as in the Australian colloquialism “Things are crook in Tallarook”)  
+  
+This poem was published in the The Euroa Advertiser with the comment: “The following humorous verses are copied from “The Catholic Press,” and were contributed by an erstwhile Tocumwal parish priest, who writes under the name of “John O’Brien”:” [see: “Said Hanrahan”, The Euroa Advertiser (Euroa, Vic.), Friday 29 August 1919, page 4]  
+  
+Filed Under -  poetry  
+Tagged With -  Around the Boree Log and Other Verses (John O’Brien 1921), Editor’s notes, John O'Brien (1878-1952) (author), poem, recommended poetry, SourceIACLibrary  
+  
+Words copied from https://www.australianculture.org/said-hanrahan-john-obrien/ on 21 July 2025.  
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