Anybody know who wrote The Drovers Dream

[manfredvijars]

"Some frogs from out the swamp
where the atmosphere is damp"

... it's called a 'sight' rhyme and quite legitimate. (although some modern judges may not agree)
Many of the classic poets used this.

I'll try and pull up some examples ...

[Vic Jefferies]

Lots of examples Manfred but still doesn't scan for me.
May look alright on the page (hence the term sight rhyme) but jars when it is said.
Robert W Service (one of my heroes) tries to get away with calm and damn in the Shooting of Dan McGrew:
Then his lips went in in a kind of grin, and he spoke, and his voice was calm,
And "Boys," says he, "you don't know me, and none of you care a damn;
Just doesn't work!

[Mal McLean]

Lionel Long recorded a version in the early sixties I think