Joy McKean (14 Jan 1930 - 25 May 2023)

Female Person - Australia

Works (61)

Wrote

1. Old Beau
2. Old Sunlander Van
3. Ghosts of the Golden Mile
4. The Shearing Song
5. Bible of the Bush
6. Beat of the Goverment Stroke
7. Harry Bowden… Derelict
8. Blackened Quarts Are Boiling
9. Not Much to Show

Composed

1. Indian Pacific
2. Walk a Country Mile
3. What I Am
4. Trouble
5. Local Mary Magdalen
6. Feeling Sorry for Me
7. Wind‐Up Gramophone
8. Home Cookin’
9. That’s Not Me
10. One Truckie’s Epitaph
11. Ringer From the Top End
12. Cattlemen From the High Plains
13. The Angel of Goulburn Hill
14. Just Saddle Old Darkie
15. I Don’t Sleep at Night
16. Kelly’s Offsider
17. The Biggest Disappointment
18. The Worst in the World
19. Sundown
20. I’ve Been There (and Back Again)
21. Sweet Talking Girl
22. I Don’t Want No Woman Around
23. Grandfather Johnson
24. Lights on the Hill
25. Morning Mail
26. Christmas on the Station

Lyrics

1. Christmas on the Station
2. What I Am
3. Trouble
4. Local Mary Magdalen
5. Feeling Sorry for Me
6. Wind‐Up Gramophone
7. Home Cookin’
8. That’s Not Me
9. One Truckie’s Epitaph
10. Ringer From the Top End
11. Cattlemen From the High Plains
12. The Angel of Goulburn Hill
13. Just Saddle Old Darkie
14. I Don’t Sleep at Night
15. Kelly’s Offsider
16. Walk a Country Mile
17. Indian Pacific
18. The Biggest Disappointment
19. The Worst in the World
20. Sundown
21. I’ve Been There (and Back Again)
22. Sweet Talking Girl
23. I Don’t Want No Woman Around
24. Lights on the Hill
25. Grandfather Johnson
26. Morning Mail