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<br>Sign! Sign! Sign! Asking the aid of the Helper Divine! The Bushwhackers sang Click Go the Shears in 1957 on their Wattle EP Australian Bush Songs. In the last verse of Click Go the Shears rings the cry of the shearer on the spree at the end of the shearing season: "And everyone that comes along, [Wood Ranger Power Shears features](http://e92070dv.bget.ru/user/MargieParrott75/) [Wood Ranger Power Shears manual](https://git.terrainknowledge.com/andybaldridge) [cordless power shears](https://qrofferz.com/deldotson71372) Shears coupon it’s come and drink with me." Many of the shearers who sang that will need to have loved it all the more as a result of they knew the very serious parody of Ring the Bell, Watchman, sung by temperance crusaders in England: "Sign, sign the pledge, brother
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