Old Ted

Old Ted he does know all about life for he has been there and done that He has shorn sheep in North Queensland and laid water pipes in Ararat He was also in demand as a horse breaker one of the best of the outback He tamed many a bucking wild brumby and in courage he did not lack Old Ted in his twilight years single one who never did have a wife And he never did father children though he did have women in his life In his younger years he was an itinerant worker one who liked to move from place to place His kind always rare are nowadays even rarer one might say an endangered race For one who is in his mid eighties he is one who has aged quite well Though time that is known to rust iron on him is beginning to tell The years on him nowadays are showing he is not the man he used to be The man who with a hand shears once shore in ten hours two hundred big wethers in Queensland in nineteen sixty three Old Ted's home is a basement apartment one happy to live on his own He is such a likeable person and to many he is quite well known His traveling and working days are now over back in the old Hometown for to stay He will die where he grew into manhood and first looked on the bright lamp of day.