Stranger Songs
Tuesday March 3rd, 2026 with Mike Regenstreif
The Water Lily and Other Song/Poems of Henry Lawson
The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is The Water Lily and Other Song/Poems of Henry Lawson.
Pictured: Henry Lawson, circa 1915.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| Henry Lawson – who was born in Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia in 1867 and died in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1922 at age 55 – is widely regarded as one of Australia’s greatest writers. Many of his poems have been set to music by a variety of artists. |
| The Water Lily Priscilla Herdman - The Water Lily - Philo |
| The Sliprails and the Spur Garnet Rogers - Speaking Softly in the Dark - Snow Goose Songs
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| Andy's Gone with Cattle Dennis O'Keefe - The Songs of Chris Kempster - Folk Federation of NSW |
| On the Night Train The Queensland Tiger - Henry Lawson: The Poet in Song Vol. 3 - The Queensland Tiger |
| The Drover’s Sweetheart Priscilla Herdman - The Water Lily - Philo |
| Never-Neverland Martyn Wyndham-Read - Undiscovered Australia - Musica Pangaea |
| This tribute song is the only song on this show that is not a setting of a Henry Lawson poem. |
| Henry Lawson Slim Dusty - Australiana - EMI Australia |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| Do You Think That I Do Not Know Priscilla Herdman - The Water Lily - Philo |
| Written Afterwards Slim Dusty - Australiana - EMI Australia |
| The Outside Track Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers - The Best Times After All: Live - Snow Goose Songs
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| Song of the Old Bullock Driver The Queensland Tiger - Drovers, Stockmen and Bullockies - The Queensland Tiger |
| The Bush Girl Priscilla Herdman - The Water Lily - Philo |
| Middleton’s Roustabout Slim Dusty - People and Places - EMI Australia |
| Freedom on the Wallaby The Makem & Spain Brothers - Like Others Did Before Us - Red Biddy |
| New Life, New Love Martyn Wyndham-Read - Undiscovered Australia - Musica Pangaea |
| Reedy River Priscilla Herdman - The Water Lily - Philo |
| The Days When We Went Swimming Christine Wheeler - The Songs of Chris Kempster - Folk Federation of NSW |
| Sweeney Slim Dusty - The Very Best of Slim Dusty - EMI Australia |
| A Prouder Man Than You The Queensland Tiger - Henry Lawson: The Poet in Song Vol. 2 - The Queensland Tiger |
| The Shame of Going Back Priscilla Herdman - The Water Lily - Philo |
| After All Garnet Rogers - Speaking Softly in the Dark - Snow Goose Songs
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| When the Children Come Home Priscilla Herdman - Darkness into Light - Flying Fish |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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