Click Go the Shears

The enduring popularity of the song reflects the traditional role that the wool industry has played in Australian life.

The song describes the various roles in the shearing shed, including the "ringer", the "boss of the board", the "colonial experience man" and the "tar boy".

After the day's shearing, the "old shearer" takes his cheque and heads to the local pub for a drinking session.

In January 2014, Chloe and Jason Roweth sang the 1891 version of the song for an ABC TV story.

[3] When Australia replaced the pound with the dollar in 1966, a jingle that accompanied the changover was written to the same tune:[4] In come the dollars; in come the cents, To replace the pounds and the shillings and the pence, Be prepared folks, when the coins begin to mix, On the fourteenth of February, nineteen-sixty-six.