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Big Poll, The Grog Seller by Meg Lewer – Has D-Ring and wire on back.

Most of my paintings originate from one of the many poetry books I have in my studio.
This work, with its old sly grog shop was set in the dusty heart of the Australian Goldfields.
Life was hard on the women back then.

“Big Poll the grog seller gets up every day
And her small rowdy crib she sweeps out;
She’s turning in plenty of tin, people say,
For she knows what she’s about,
Aye yes, she knows what she’s about.

Well, Polly’s good-looking, and Polly is young,
Polly’s possessed of a smooth oily tongue;
She’s an innocent face and a good head of hair,
And a lot of young fellows will often go there.
And they keep dropping in, handsome Polly to court,
And Poll, she supplies them with brandy and port……
And the neighbours all say that the whole blessed day,
She’s a-grog-selling late and early,
She is a-grog-selling late and early.”

Written by Charles Thatcher who was an entertainer on the Ballarat Goldfields in 1852