Words with interlinear glosses of 124 songs in Girramay, Jirrbal, Gulngay, Jirru, Mamu, some with musical transcriptions; linguistic and musical analysis of five song styles - Gama and Marrga styles performed at corroborees and lovesong styles Jangala, Burran and Gaynyil; notes on vocabulary, grammar and phonology; brief history of Dyirbal people and effects of contacts with Europeans after 1864 when Cardwell established; survival of Murray Upper community