Try this:
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Out on the board the old shearer stands
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Grasping his shears in his long bony hands
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Fixed is his gaze on a bare-bellied "joe"
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Glory if he gets her, won't he make the ringer go
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Chorus
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Click go the shears boys, click, click, click
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Wide is his blow and his hands move quick
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The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow
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And curses the old snagger with the blue-bellied "joe"
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In the middle of the floor in his cane-bottomed chair
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Is the boss of the board, with eyes everywhere
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Notes well each fleece as it comes to the screen
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Paying strict attention if it's taken off clean
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The colonial-experience man he is there, of course
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With his shiny leggin's just got off his horse
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Casting round his eye like a real connoisseur
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Whistling the old tune "I'm the Perfect Lure"
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The tar-boy is there awaiting in demand
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With his blackened tar-pot and his tarry hand
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Sees one old sheep with a cut upon its back
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Here's what he's waiting for "Tar here Jack!"
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Shearing is all over and we've all got our cheques
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Roll up your swag for we're off on the tracks
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The first pub we come to it's there we'll have a spree
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And everyone that comes along it's, "Come and drink with me!"
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Down by the bar the old shearer stands
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Grasping his glass in his thin bony hands
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Fixed is his gaze on a green-painted keg
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Glory he'll get down on it ere he stirs a peg
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There we leave him standing, shouting for all hands
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Whilst all around him every shouter stands
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His eyes are on the cask which is now lowering fast
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He works hard he drinks hard and goes to hell at last
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You take off the belly-wool clean out the crutch
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Go up the neck for the rules they are such
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You clean round the horns first shoulder go down
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One blow up the back and you then turn around
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Click, click, that's how the shears go
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Click, click, so awfully quick
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You pull out a sheep he'll give a kick
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And still hear your shears going click, click, click
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Click go the shears(Down under)
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| Olivia Newton-John |
