Blackberry pie : 48 New Zealand ballads / Joe Charles ; drawings by Dora Mullins.

Blackberry pie -- By Muddy Creek -- Drybread -- The miner's grave -- Opo, the Opononi dolphin -- The girl in the blue denim jeans -- Joe Driscoll -- Kea call -- Freddy Ambrose -- Hi! Hi! Hi! -- Fire! -- Beating the breeze -- Up the Boohi -- Hat rack Jack -- The search -- The stray -- Where-a-go -- To old dogs -- Born free -- The ten-minute test -- The parson and the bullocks -- Fred's first fordson! -- On Beccards Hill -- Corsair Bay -- Moonlight -- The conservation ballad -- View from Sugar Loaf -- The Windwhistle Pub -- A bullock team ballad -- A ballad for Tex Morton -- Roary's story -- City boy -- The chaffie -- The naming of Young Nick's Head -- The Rapaki Track -- The pack boy -- My old whare -- Song for Northland -- Winding river -- Pakiri Hill -- Cicada song -- September's child -- Soliloquy on a swagger -- The cow cockatoo -- Fording the Rakaia -- On the picket line -- The black stump -- To the tall ships.