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* SanitySlippageSong: Eric starts to wonder if he is going insane in "Them Old Song Writin' Blues":
-->I yhink my mind's beginnin' to go\
I just found myself wishin' I was Barry Manilow


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* ThisIsASong: "Them Old Song Writin' Blues" is a song about how hard it was to write the song. May also counts as a SanitySlippageSong.
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* ShoutOut: At the end of "Little Gomez" the singer goes to the pet shop to try and buy a replacement for Gomez, but the shop owner (who "loved corny puns") told him [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas "Yes, we have no chihuahuas!"]]
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To hump tent and pegs, a man needs both legs\\

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To hump tent tents and pegs, a man needs both legs\\
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* SongOfSongTitles:
** "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda..." obviously refers to "Waltzing Matilda".
** "Plastic Paddy" name-checks a dozen or so Irish folk songs.
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* SurrogateSoliloquy: "No Man's Land" is sung to a dead WWI soldier.
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* TrainStationGoodbye: "Leaving Nancy", which is based on Bogle saying goodbye to his mother at the train station as he left to emigrate to Australia.
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-->"That brutalised children become adults who then brutalise"
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-->Ad the killers wear policeman's badges\\

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-->Ad -->And the killers wear policeman's badges\\
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* DearNegativeReader: Parodied in "Bloody Rotten Audience"

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* DearNegativeReader: Parodied in "Bloody Rotten Audience"Audience" is presented as an InUniverse one of these by an embittered folk singer who's failed to win over the titular crowd, listing the different ways in which he's brilliant and how stupid the audience must be not to appreciate him. Performed live, this is both a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} and SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic.
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* ViolentGlaswegian: Eric, who was born in Peebles, does not shy away from his Scottish heritage, and has used this stereoyoe for songs both comic (e.g. "English Arse Kissing Blues") and serious (e.g. "Glasgow Lullaby").

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* ViolentGlaswegian: Eric, who was born in Peebles, does not shy away from his Scottish heritage, and has used this stereoyoe stereotype for songs both comic (e.g. "English Arse Kissing Blues") and serious (e.g. "Glasgow Lullaby").
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* KillerCop: * "Mirrors" is about Brazilian policemen who act as freelance death squads in Rio's slums.

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* KillerCop: * "Mirrors" is about Brazilian policemen who act as freelance death squads in Rio's slums.



* OutWithABang: "Little Gomez" is about a randy Chihuahua that is crushed to death while attempting to consumate a liaison with a Saint Bernard.

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* OutWithABang: "Little Gomez" is about a randy Chihuahua that is crushed to death while attempting to consumate consummate a liaison with a Saint Bernard.
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* KillerCop: * "Mirrors" is about Brazilian policemen who act as freelance death squads in Rio's slums.
-->Ad the killers wear policeman's badges\\
Kill to supplement their wages\\
Earn their bloody bounty, with the gun and club and knife
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* UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne: "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", "No Man's Land"

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* UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne: UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", "No Man's Land"
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* RefrainFromAssuming: "No Man's Land" is sometimes known as (and has been recorded under) the alternate title "Green Fields of France". Some people, however, refer to the song as "Willie [=McBride=]" (the name of the dead soldier to whom the song is addressed).
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* CrapsackOnlyByComparison: "Beam Me Up, Scotty" declares "I'm stuck here in a place I do not care for" and "There must be intelligent life out there, I hope so, there's not much down here."
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* ViolentGlaswegian: Eric, who was born in Peebles, does not shy away from his Scottish heritage, and has used this stereoyoe for songs both comic (e.g. "English Arse Kissing Blues") and serious (e.g. "Glasgow Lullaby").
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* TheRealHeroes: "Our National Pride"

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* TheRealHeroes: "Our National Pride"Pride" was written after a group of volunteer firefighters were killed battling a bushfire in Victoria. It is all about how these people, and not athletes, deserve to be called heroes.

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* NostalgicNarrator: "Eric and the Informers" is Eric musically reminiscing about his first ever band (and how bad they were).

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"Eric and the Informers" is Eric musically reminiscing about his first ever band (and how bad they were).were).
** "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is told from the point of view of a World War One veteran looking back on their service.


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-->"She looked like she came from outer space; from Mars, or maybe Uranus"
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* NostalgicNarrator: "Eric and the Informers" is Eric musically reminiscing about his first ever band (and how bad they were).
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* WarIsHellWarIsHell: The theme of "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" and "No Man's Land".
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* NoIntelligentLifeHere: Bogle uses the joke in his song "Beam Me Up Scotty":
-->''There must be intelligent life out there, I hope so, there’s not much down here''
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* WasItReallyWorthIt: "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"

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* WasItReallyWorthIt: "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"Matilda", "No Man's Land"
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Many of Bogle's songs have been covered by other artists; including John Schumann, June Tabor, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners, John [=McDermott=], Liam Clancy, MikeHarding, ThePogues, Robert Lawrence, De Dannan, Dropkick Murphys, The Corries, BillyBragg, The Bushwackers, Slim Dusty and John Williamson.

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Many of Bogle's songs have been covered by other artists; including John Schumann, June Tabor, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners, John [=McDermott=], Liam Clancy, MikeHarding, Creator/MikeHarding, ThePogues, Robert Lawrence, De Dannan, Dropkick Murphys, The Corries, BillyBragg, The Bushwackers, Slim Dusty and John Williamson.
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* FilkSong: "Beam Me Up, Scotty!"
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* AnArmAndALeg: In "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", the narrator loses his legs in WorldWarI.

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* AnArmAndALeg: In "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", the narrator loses his legs in WorldWarI.UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.



* WorldWarOne: "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", "No Man's Land"

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* WorldWarOne: UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne: "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", "No Man's Land"
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* AnArmAndALeg: In "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", the narrator loses a leg in WorldWarI.

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* AnArmAndALeg: In "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", the narrator loses a leg his legs in WorldWarI.
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* HeavyMeta:
** "Do You Sing Any Dylan?", about the request a singer-songwriter ''doesn't'' want to hear.
** "Plastic Paddy" about mock-Irish folk songs, done in the style of a mock-Irish folk song.
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With a totally indecent suggestion\\

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With a totally indecent suggestion\\suggestion
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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: "Do You Know Any Dylan?" has him react to the titular question
-->And I usually reply\\
In my own quiet way\\
With a totally indecent suggestion\\
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* KillThePoor: "Mirrors" is about death squads of policemen being paid by businessmen to kill the street kids of Rio's slums.

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