Stringybark Creek

The next day Kennedy and Scanlan went to search the nearby forest, while Lonigan and Constable Thomas McIntyre stayed at the campsite.

[citation needed] McIntyre raised his hands, but Lonigan attempted to run and reached for his gun.

In 1879, G. Wilson Hall printed a book in Mansfield called The Kelly Gang, Outlaws of the Wombat Ranges.

[6] It included a song called "Stringybark Creek" which is believed to have been written by Joe Byrne.

[7] The first verse is: A sergeant and three constables Rode Out from Mansfield town, Near the end of last October For to hunt the Kellys down.

So they travelled to the Wombat And they thought it quite a lark, And they camped upon the borders Of a creek called Stringbark.

The song has been recorded many times, including the Australian folk-rock band the Bushwackers on their 1979 album, Bushfire.

Waylon Jennings recorded Shel Silverstein's song Lonigan's Widow for the 1970 film Ned Kelly.