These Dalmatian gum diggers are enjoying a card game – probably on a Sunday. Most of them worked six days a week and spent Sundays playing games and relaxing. Listen to ‘Song of the digger’, a traditional New Zealand folk song.
Transcript
This is the song of the digger,
the song of a seeker of gum,
sung in a kerosene twilight
to the sound of a kerosene drum.
The hooking is done in the summer
it's done in the winter as well,
the finer the weather, the better
for the scrub when it's wet gives you hell.
This is the song of the digger,
the song of a seeker of gum,
sung in a kerosene twilight
to the sound of a kerosene drum.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: 22860
Image: Alexander Turnbull Library, Arthur James Northwood, 1/1-011230; G
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