Greasy Biggins, Station Cook
Lyrics and Music: Ted Egan
I guess you’ve heard of Greasy Biggins Station Cook
If you haven’t well you better take a good look
On the great big stations where the cattle run
I think you’ll find that nearly everyone
Out in the bush knows Greasy Biggins Station Cook
Oh he can make a puftaloon a dumpling or a macaroon
roly-poly pudding and a bun
A Carpet snake or a Johnny Cake
Old Greasy knows a dish for everyone
This is a real person I’m singing about
John Biggins Station Cook
Such a filthy brute he was nicknamed Greasy Biggins
And I’m not kidding ya he was so greasy dogs used to lick his shadow
It was Greasy who invented Biggins Buns
And I think the ANZACs fired ’em through their guns
Oh they're the buns every bushy craves
They’re used as doorstops or tombstones over graves
Oh Greasy Biggins' famous buns
Now Greasy once worked on the Birdsville Track
Where the ringers all gave cheek and they answered back
But he fixed them when they complained about his faults
He served them damper made with flour and Epsom Salts
O Greasy Biggins Station Cook
Oh he can make a puftaloon a dumpling or a macaroon
a roly-poly pudding and a bun
A Carpet snake or a Johnny Cake
Old Greasy knows a dish for everyone
I can still see Greasy Biggins with his pot
Poised above a stew called cop this lot
Oh the greasy drops of sweat were dripping in
“Added flavour” he told me with a grin
Oh Greasy Biggins Station Cook
But despite all his super culinary feats
The ringers once went crook because there were no sweets
So he made a giant strawberry blancmange in an old horse trough
He stood above ’em with a bloody great axe till they knocked it all off
Oh Greasy Biggins Station Cook
Yes he can make a puftaloon a dumpling or a macaroon
a roly-poly pudding and a bun
A Carpet snake or a Johnny Cake
Greasy knows a dish for everyone
Yes he can make a puftaloon a dumpling or a macaroon
a roly-poly pudding and a bun
A Carpet snake or a Johnny Cake
Old Greasy knows a dish for everyone
Greasy knows a dish for everyone
Lyrics Submitted by Richard D