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It's time for the adventures of Stumpy and Grumpy.
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Join us as we celebrate their odd friendship
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and their love of all things Australian. This
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podcast is intended for adults so wowsers can
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go fuck themselves. It's six o 'clock in the
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morning. How you going? Listen, you got here
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early this morning? Too bloody early. And you
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were still in bed, you little shit. Why not?
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We need some semaphore or some bloody sign language
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between us so we can understand each other at
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this time of morning. You can't understand you
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the best of time. Anyway, we'd be fucking coffee.
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How about I give you the finger? Yeah, yeah.
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No, give me my coffee. Maybe there's some aphorisms.
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Aphorisms? What's the word aphorism mean? I haven't
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got a clue. Hey, Siri, what's an aphorism? An
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aphorism is a concise, terse, laconic or memorable
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expression of a general truth or principle. Factified
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answer. Siri, you're an idiot. That's not nice.
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Fancy. Papa Whiskey November From Weeper the
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way to fly She was in love with a pilot And he
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was in love with a scar And they played the moonlight
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serenade of the Cape York Peninsula. Down the
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coast of the Dane Tree, Queensland, Australia.
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Where you can go up the river in a beautiful
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dog out canoe. But don't use your hand for a
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paddle, crocodile waiting for you. And don't
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step on a death adder. Or tread into cattle poo
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Just walk in the garden of Eden With the big
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fella palm cockatoo Pop a whiskey November From
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Weeper the way to fly She was in love with a
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pilot And he was in love with a scar My sister,
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she works in a motel. She washes his overalls
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clean. My mother, she knows the bush tucker.
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She knows that one, you know what I mean. And
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you could end up a dead fella, so don't eat the
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gitchy bean. Papa whiskey November, from wheat
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by the way to fly. She was in love with a pilot.
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He was in love with a star Now they're talking
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about a space station To send off the satellite
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They don't tell much to the people But the people
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they have the right To hold on to their dreaming.
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A nature world unknown. A golden opportunity.
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To leave this alder alone. Papa Whiskey November.
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From Weeper the way to fly. She was in love with
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the pilot. And he was in love with the sky. And
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they played the moonlight serenade. Ah, some
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of my best fiddle playing there. Yeah, Papa Whiskey
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November, all about bush pilots up in the north,
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to Pointy End and around that way. No! I know,
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and we actually met the guy and saw the plane
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too. You did? Yeah. Was it still flying? Yeah,
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yeah, yeah, at the time. There's a lot of funny
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stories about it. The guy's quite a bit of a
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hero. There was a bush pilot up that region who
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did a lot of rummaging around and found a swag
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of all the one -geners and the Bradshaws and
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that, and he had a mate. called Dick Ruffsey.
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We're talking about rock art, Aboriginal rock
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art. Yeah, indeed, yeah. Just in case those people
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out there didn't know what we were talking about.
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Dick Ruffsey, and he was an artist and painter
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in his own right, and he did a whole swag of
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books, and they were just delightful. And there
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was a book, yeah, lovely. Well, how the fuck
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does that lead us into this next song? I've got
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no idea what's the next song. You haven't got
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a fucking clue, have you? Well, it's this one.
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I'm just a plain old bushman who has almost run
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his race. Eighty years of eating damper and I'm
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slowing down in pace. When most men snap their
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hobbles, they are planted down below. But me,
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I'd like it different when my time has come to
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go. I've been so used to watching. The cross
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and Milky Way and the sight of bush bred cattle
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at the dawn of each new day. That I've come to
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one conclusion and strange as it may be, the
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bush has been my homeland and it all belongs
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to me. Just dump my carcass in the scrub so I
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can see the stars. Let dingoes drag me at their
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will through sand and cool above. And maybe on
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some winter's night when the air is cold and
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damp, I'll hear old mates break into song around
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the cattle on the camp. Let my bones lie in the
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open in the country that I love. So the crows
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and wedge -tailed eagles can survey me from above.
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May they hold a big corroboree, hop around and
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flap their wings. And I'd smell the bushland
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fragrance of the flowers in the spring. I don't
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want no thousand mourners or... Teardrops streaming
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down And I couldn't rest quite easy In the confines
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of a town Strap my carcass on her pack horse
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Crack the whip and turn him free Just as long
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as I'm in bushland Well that's good enough for
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me Have a booze up and a sing song Play the old
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guitar as well Send me off with country music
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And the stories that they tell And I'd love to
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hear a chorus Of the bells and hobble chains
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As the plant goes on her muster Through the scrub
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and salt bush plains You can curse, swear, condemn
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me And of others it's been said He was not her
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bed, poor bludger Boy, and they know a man is
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dead I don't want no fancy headstone on a special
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piece of ground. Take me back to scrubbing nature.
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Let the dingos drag me around. Take me back to
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scrubbing nature. Isn't that lovely? Let the
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dingos drag me around. That's the kind of life
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I like to live, eh? Gordon Parsons, the old GP
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himself there. He was so unusual, you know, I
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thought at the time, because he looked like a
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little bookie when you first look at Gordon Parsons.
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You thought he was going to, you know, number
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four in the seventh. You know, he was like a
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little bookie because he wore a, he didn't wear
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any of the normal sort of cowboy hats. He wore
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this little snappy little short trilby. I was
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up at Winton on Cork Station of all places at
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the time. And when I heard this song, I thought,
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oh, you know, that'd be a good way to go. And
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the mate, Danny Barnfield, said, all right, mate,
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what we'll do is we'll tie you to a bloody horse
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and drag you and fill you full of Lucy Jet. So
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a lot of dogs can get in. Well, you prick. Lucy
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Jet. Oh, it was Lucy. Lucy Jet's a poison. More
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from the adventures of Manfred and his trusty
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sidekick, Pixie! Back in the old days when I
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first started, when I first went to Sydney, I'd
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gotten into a show, a big, huge club show. The
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guy, Lester V. Coombs, he saw something in me.
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He was the first bloke that ever gave me a leg
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up in the music industry. Wasn't he a cranky
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old bastard? Mate, he was a legend as far as
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Ivan's concerned. A legendary crank. I was five
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or six, I don't know which When Jesus came to
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Emerald The trouble was I wasn't sure that he
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was there I've been working all day. My fingers
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were sore. And when I thought no one could hear,
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I knelt in the back of the truck and I made this
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prayer. I cried, Jesus, make me a singer. is
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God's way of staying anonymous. Well, I believe
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in the Lord. I lived without a lot of love. But
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he gave me a voice. The music rolled out. And
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the only thing for certain is that Jesus was
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there in the back of that truck. is he took his
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time to answer it was a bit at a time but never
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in a flash of light so I say to you if you have
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a need and you feel Jesus can help get down on
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your knees but be prepared to signed a pack there
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with, mate. I love Lester. Oh, God, he was the
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legend. He had a string of record companies back
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in the, record sales shops back in the 80s and
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he had these huge shows going and, yeah, he was
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a bit of a dynamite, Lester V. Coombs. Love the
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song. That's how most kids are anyway. Oh, Jesus,
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do this, I'll do that. Jesus, do this, I promise
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I won't, I promise. That's what happens when
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you've got a personal Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
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Jesus let me have that. He's so cute. I promise.
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If you let me have him. It's many and picks.
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So Lester was praying to Jesus to make him a
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singer. You know, there's some singers that should
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have been praying. I used to love a fellow called
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Johnny Chester, right? I still do. I love Johnny.
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I love Johnny. He was great. But he had this
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thing where we all were as musos. And if he's
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listening, I'm sorry. Johnny, but we all knew
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you sing half a tone sharp. And we all knew it.
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And when we played with you, we all adjusted
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to you. You don't know. He used to travel around
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the big black bus. We used to call it the bitch,
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the big black bitch. And he was doing well in
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the 80s, travelling around, doing his country
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show, his big country show. He was great. Yeah,
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the first time I saw him was over in Western
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Australia. I was working in a place called the
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Peppermint Lounge in Barrack Street. Wow. Yeah,
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so I forget the theatre that he played at. Oh,
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yeah. And he was doing shaking all over. Oh,
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God, that one, was he? Jesus. Yeah, and he was...
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I forget the theatre he was in, but the one song
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that sticks out for me was Shakin' All Over.
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Oh, goodness me. The Adventures of Manny and
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Pix. Manfred, you know I love you, mostly because
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of your bon vivants and your amazing personality.
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But what I do love is your songwriting. I just,
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you know, I think you're quickly becoming, if
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not... One of the best we've ever had, certainly
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the best we've ever had. Focus fixed up on the
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road Off to pay a debt that's owed Saw the signpost
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and she slowed She's been this way before Turning
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down that lonely track Looking forward to coming
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back. Her spirits lift no longer black. Oh, how
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she's missing him. How's the homestead now in
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ruin? Can't buy the creek, the tea's brewing.
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A peaceful place, a soul's renewal. She hears
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the girl who cried. The stars were bright, no
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moon that night. This precious place of their
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delight. She feels at peace, now all is right.
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She promised she'd return. He's ashes scattered
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on their creek. The tears well up and wet her
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cheek. She stumbles as she's feeling weak. The
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curlew's standing mute. Stokes the fire, the
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billy's on The curlew cries again Stretches out
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to greet the sun Prepares herself to travel on
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Just one more cuppa and she's done The curlew
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cries once more A few days pass, they find her
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there Still sitting in the folding chair Her
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mug half full of vacant stare She's back with
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him The Curlew Cries, Dale Duncan there, gorgeous
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song. And written by my mate here sitting beside
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me, Manfred Viers. And I've got to say, it's
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a beautiful, beautiful concept. Two things. One
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is the idea of the Curlew Cries is very, it's
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a spiritual thing to the Aboriginals. Kath Walker,
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Ujuru Noonuckle had a great poem about it, saying
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goodbye to the ones in the town tonight, someone
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will die when they hear the Curlew Cries three
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times. The concept you've got there, that wonderful
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concept of the woman. coming there to throw her
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husband's ashes, and then she finally passes
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away herself in the same area. That's just a
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beautiful concept. I love you for it. Thank you.
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That was actually based on a true story of an
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elderly couple, a Larrakia couple. This is up
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in Darwin. I met them in Prap, which is the Aboriginal
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camp there. And we'd just get to talking, little
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stuff like that. Was it a suburb? A suburb, that's
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right, it is a suburb. And then went back later
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and heard that they'd gone, or he died first,
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and she went back to country. Well, she was in
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country anyway, but she went back to an old place
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that was dear to them, and she just passed there,
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very peaceful, and even with a smile on her face.
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Beautiful concept. Cup of tea in hand. Cup of
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tea in hand, that's it. That's how you want to
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go. Yeah. Let's just keep going on. I'll keep
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taking it all away from this until there's no
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more boomerang. No more tea. No more beer. No
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more boomerang. grumpy. Whisper words of love
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to Curry Rose Well, now she's gone It seems We
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should part. She took part of my heart. And only
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God knows how I miss my career road. In the evening
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we'd stroll down by the river. And as the golden
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moon shines brightly up above. The rippling waters
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as the river softly flows I'd whisper words of
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love to Curry Rose Just remember, I still love
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you, Curry Rose Just remember, I still love you,
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Curry Rose Roger Knox Gorgeous. Lovely song.
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One of my favourites. And before that, of course,
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Coloured Stone with No More Boomerang. No more
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spear! Heyo, mate. Waza. Waza. Lovely little
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recording. Obviously done out at Karma, out there
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at Alice Springs. And beautiful instrumentation.
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It's lovely. Almost a little bluegrass -y song.
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He's doing some really lovely stuff at the moment.
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Voice of the outback, in my opinion. Warren's
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got this wide -open plains voice. The voice of
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Australia's heart. Yeah, it's like Nat King Cole
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had a voice of America. But I think Warren's
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the voice of Australia in that way. The same
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way, almost. Next time I pop out to bloody Alice
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Springs, I need to take a little trip off to
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Chambers Pillar, which is almost the centre of
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Australia. Yep, almost. Yep. Geographically.
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I'm sort of kicking myself for not popping out
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there last time. So we've got to go out camping.
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For fuck's sake. Don't be an idiot. Camping is
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good. You've already got a shitload of gear.
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Where am I going to put my oils and salves? Where
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am I going to put my buttermilk? You can put
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them in the fold -up bloody shelf that we can
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get. Because, I mean, you've got all your camping
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gear on a freaking solid shelf in the garage.
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I mean, it's only for show. Pierre Cardin does
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not fit in a fucking swag. True. Because he's
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decomposing, mate. He's dead. You're a dick.
00:32:51.740 --> 00:32:55.440
That's short, fat and frumpy. At only two bucks
00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:58.299
an episode, what have you got to lose? Two bucks,
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I guess. I don't know how they work. See, the
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cassettes, I don't know. VCRs. Cassettes are
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easy, mate. You stick them in the bloody VCR.
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They actually fit in there. No, don't stick it.
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We can't play it then. Stick that in there. Put
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it in there. Press the play button. Press the
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play button. Play, play. Just stick that. Play
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that damn thing there. There. Watch this. Back
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to the... You must have gone swimming in the
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peel. I went skinny dipping a lot with my other
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young male friends when I was a young fella.
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We had a big bloody dam across the river back
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home. I'm still talking about skinny dipping.
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It's enough of that man. We had this dam across
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the river back home and that was the weir for
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us. And we'd go swimming down there with all
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the old mates. I wonder what ever happened to
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them. You know, I often think that. Did some
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of them turn out to be gay? I've got no idea,
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nor do I care. I was talking about my mates.
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I don't know. Mates? Why are we here for crying
00:38:04.179 --> 00:38:05.659
out loud? No, I always thought mates are good
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because especially if you're gay, it's a good
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thing because you can bring your mates over to
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watch the footy and then afterwards you can fuck
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them. Oh, fuck off. I've travelled down some
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dusty roads, both crooked tracks and straight,
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and I have learnt life's neighbourless creed.
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Summed up in one word, mate. I'm thinking back
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across the years, a thing I do of late, and these
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words stick between my ears. You've got to have
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a mate. Someone who'll take you as you are, regardless
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of your state, and stand as firm as air's rock,
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because he is your mate. My mind goes back to
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43, to slavery and hate, when man's one chance
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to stay alive depended on his mate. With bamboo
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for a billy can and bamboo for a plate, a bamboo
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paradise for bugs. Was bed for me and mate. You'd
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slip and slither through the mud. And curse your
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rotten fate. But then you'd hear a quiet word.
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Don't drop your bundle mate. I know it's all
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so long ago. This truth I have to state. A man
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don't know what lonely means. Till he has lost
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a mate. If there's a life that follows this.
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If there's a golden gate. The welcome that I
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want to hear is just. Good on you mate. And so
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to all who ask us why we keep these special dates
00:39:19.420 --> 00:39:23.380
like Anzac Day, I tell them why we're thinking
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of our mates. And when I've left the driver's
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seat and handed him my plates, I'll tell old
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Peter at the door, I've come to join my mates.
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Yeah! Come back again for another weekly adventure
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with Stumpy and Grumpy. If you don't like it,
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who cares? If you do, we'll be back next week
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with another episode of Stumpy and Grumpy.
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It's time for the adventures of Stumpy and Grumpy.
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Join us as we celebrate their odd friendship
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and their love of all things Australian. This
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podcast is intended for adults so wowsers can
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go fuck themselves. It's six o 'clock in the
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morning. How you going? Listen, you got here
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early this morning? Too bloody early. And you
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were still in bed, you little shit. Why not?
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We need some semaphore or some bloody sign language
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between us so we can understand each other at
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this time of morning. You can't understand you
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the best of time. Anyway, we'd be fucking coffee.
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How about I give you the finger? Yeah, yeah.
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No, give me my coffee. Maybe there's some aphorisms.
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Aphorisms? What's the word aphorism mean? I haven't
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got a clue. Hey, Siri, what's an aphorism? An
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aphorism is a concise, terse, laconic or memorable
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expression of a general truth or principle. Factified
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answer. Siri, you're an idiot. That's not nice.
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Fancy. Papa Whiskey November From Weeper the
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way to fly She was in love with a pilot And he
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was in love with a scar And they played the moonlight
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serenade of the Cape York Peninsula. Down the
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coast of the Dane Tree, Queensland, Australia.
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Where you can go up the river in a beautiful
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dog out canoe. But don't use your hand for a
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paddle, crocodile waiting for you. And don't
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step on a death adder. Or tread into cattle poo
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Just walk in the garden of Eden With the big
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fella palm cockatoo Pop a whiskey November From
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Weeper the way to fly She was in love with a
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pilot And he was in love with a scar My sister,
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she works in a motel. She washes his overalls
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clean. My mother, she knows the bush tucker.
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She knows that one, you know what I mean. And
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you could end up a dead fella, so don't eat the
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gitchy bean. Papa whiskey November, from wheat
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by the way to fly. She was in love with a pilot.
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He was in love with a star Now they're talking
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about a space station To send off the satellite
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They don't tell much to the people But the people
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they have the right To hold on to their dreaming.
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A nature world unknown. A golden opportunity.
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To leave this alder alone. Papa Whiskey November.
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From Weeper the way to fly. She was in love with
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the pilot. And he was in love with the sky. And
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they played the moonlight serenade. Ah, some
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of my best fiddle playing there. Yeah, Papa Whiskey
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November, all about bush pilots up in the north,
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to Pointy End and around that way. No! I know,
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and we actually met the guy and saw the plane
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too. You did? Yeah. Was it still flying? Yeah,
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yeah, yeah, at the time. There's a lot of funny
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stories about it. The guy's quite a bit of a
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hero. There was a bush pilot up that region who
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did a lot of rummaging around and found a swag
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of all the one -geners and the Bradshaws and
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that, and he had a mate. called Dick Ruffsey.
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We're talking about rock art, Aboriginal rock
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art. Yeah, indeed, yeah. Just in case those people
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out there didn't know what we were talking about.
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Dick Ruffsey, and he was an artist and painter
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in his own right, and he did a whole swag of
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books, and they were just delightful. And there
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was a book, yeah, lovely. Well, how the fuck
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does that lead us into this next song? I've got
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no idea what's the next song. You haven't got
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a fucking clue, have you? Well, it's this one.
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I'm just a plain old bushman who has almost run
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his race. Eighty years of eating damper and I'm
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slowing down in pace. When most men snap their
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hobbles, they are planted down below. But me,
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I'd like it different when my time has come to
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go. I've been so used to watching. The cross
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and Milky Way and the sight of bush bred cattle
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at the dawn of each new day. That I've come to
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one conclusion and strange as it may be, the
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bush has been my homeland and it all belongs
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to me. Just dump my carcass in the scrub so I
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can see the stars. Let dingoes drag me at their
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will through sand and cool above. And maybe on
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some winter's night when the air is cold and
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damp, I'll hear old mates break into song around
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the cattle on the camp. Let my bones lie in the
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open in the country that I love. So the crows
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and wedge -tailed eagles can survey me from above.
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May they hold a big corroboree, hop around and
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flap their wings. And I'd smell the bushland
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fragrance of the flowers in the spring. I don't
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want no thousand mourners or... Teardrops streaming
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down And I couldn't rest quite easy In the confines
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of a town Strap my carcass on her pack horse
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Crack the whip and turn him free Just as long
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as I'm in bushland Well that's good enough for
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me Have a booze up and a sing song Play the old
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guitar as well Send me off with country music
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And the stories that they tell And I'd love to
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hear a chorus Of the bells and hobble chains
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As the plant goes on her muster Through the scrub
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and salt bush plains You can curse, swear, condemn
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me And of others it's been said He was not her
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bed, poor bludger Boy, and they know a man is
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dead I don't want no fancy headstone on a special
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piece of ground. Take me back to scrubbing nature.
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Let the dingos drag me around. Take me back to
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scrubbing nature. Isn't that lovely? Let the
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dingos drag me around. That's the kind of life
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I like to live, eh? Gordon Parsons, the old GP
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himself there. He was so unusual, you know, I
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thought at the time, because he looked like a
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little bookie when you first look at Gordon Parsons.
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You thought he was going to, you know, number
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four in the seventh. You know, he was like a
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little bookie because he wore a, he didn't wear
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any of the normal sort of cowboy hats. He wore
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this little snappy little short trilby. I was
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up at Winton on Cork Station of all places at
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the time. And when I heard this song, I thought,
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oh, you know, that'd be a good way to go. And
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the mate, Danny Barnfield, said, all right, mate,
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what we'll do is we'll tie you to a bloody horse
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and drag you and fill you full of Lucy Jet. So
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a lot of dogs can get in. Well, you prick. Lucy
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Jet. Oh, it was Lucy. Lucy Jet's a poison. More
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from the adventures of Manfred and his trusty
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sidekick, Pixie! Back in the old days when I
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first started, when I first went to Sydney, I'd
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gotten into a show, a big, huge club show. The
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guy, Lester V. Coombs, he saw something in me.
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He was the first bloke that ever gave me a leg
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up in the music industry. Wasn't he a cranky
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old bastard? Mate, he was a legend as far as
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Ivan's concerned. A legendary crank. I was five
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or six, I don't know which When Jesus came to
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Emerald The trouble was I wasn't sure that he
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was there I've been working all day. My fingers
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were sore. And when I thought no one could hear,
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I knelt in the back of the truck and I made this
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prayer. I cried, Jesus, make me a singer. is
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God's way of staying anonymous. Well, I believe
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in the Lord. I lived without a lot of love. But
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he gave me a voice. The music rolled out. And
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the only thing for certain is that Jesus was
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there in the back of that truck. is he took his
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time to answer it was a bit at a time but never
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in a flash of light so I say to you if you have
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a need and you feel Jesus can help get down on
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your knees but be prepared to signed a pack there
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with, mate. I love Lester. Oh, God, he was the
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legend. He had a string of record companies back
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in the, record sales shops back in the 80s and
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he had these huge shows going and, yeah, he was
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a bit of a dynamite, Lester V. Coombs. Love the
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song. That's how most kids are anyway. Oh, Jesus,
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do this, I'll do that. Jesus, do this, I promise
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I won't, I promise. That's what happens when
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you've got a personal Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
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Jesus let me have that. He's so cute. I promise.
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If you let me have him. It's many and picks.
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So Lester was praying to Jesus to make him a
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singer. You know, there's some singers that should
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have been praying. I used to love a fellow called
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Johnny Chester, right? I still do. I love Johnny.
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I love Johnny. He was great. But he had this
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thing where we all were as musos. And if he's
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listening, I'm sorry. Johnny, but we all knew
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you sing half a tone sharp. And we all knew it.
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And when we played with you, we all adjusted
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to you. You don't know. He used to travel around
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the big black bus. We used to call it the bitch,
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the big black bitch. And he was doing well in
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the 80s, travelling around, doing his country
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show, his big country show. He was great. Yeah,
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the first time I saw him was over in Western
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Australia. I was working in a place called the
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Peppermint Lounge in Barrack Street. Wow. Yeah,
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so I forget the theatre that he played at. Oh,
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yeah. And he was doing shaking all over. Oh,
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God, that one, was he? Jesus. Yeah, and he was...
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I forget the theatre he was in, but the one song
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that sticks out for me was Shakin' All Over.
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Oh, goodness me. The Adventures of Manny and
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Pix. Manfred, you know I love you, mostly because
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of your bon vivants and your amazing personality.
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But what I do love is your songwriting. I just,
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you know, I think you're quickly becoming, if
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not... One of the best we've ever had, certainly
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the best we've ever had. Focus fixed up on the
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road Off to pay a debt that's owed Saw the signpost
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and she slowed She's been this way before Turning
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down that lonely track Looking forward to coming
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back. Her spirits lift no longer black. Oh, how
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she's missing him. How's the homestead now in
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ruin? Can't buy the creek, the tea's brewing.
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A peaceful place, a soul's renewal. She hears
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the girl who cried. The stars were bright, no
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moon that night. This precious place of their
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delight. She feels at peace, now all is right.
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She promised she'd return. He's ashes scattered
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on their creek. The tears well up and wet her
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cheek. She stumbles as she's feeling weak. The
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curlew's standing mute. Stokes the fire, the
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billy's on The curlew cries again Stretches out
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to greet the sun Prepares herself to travel on
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Just one more cuppa and she's done The curlew
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cries once more A few days pass, they find her
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there Still sitting in the folding chair Her
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mug half full of vacant stare She's back with
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him The Curlew Cries, Dale Duncan there, gorgeous
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song. And written by my mate here sitting beside
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me, Manfred Viers. And I've got to say, it's
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a beautiful, beautiful concept. Two things. One
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is the idea of the Curlew Cries is very, it's
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a spiritual thing to the Aboriginals. Kath Walker,
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Ujuru Noonuckle had a great poem about it, saying
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goodbye to the ones in the town tonight, someone
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will die when they hear the Curlew Cries three
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times. The concept you've got there, that wonderful
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concept of the woman. coming there to throw her
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husband's ashes, and then she finally passes
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away herself in the same area. That's just a
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beautiful concept. I love you for it. Thank you.
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That was actually based on a true story of an
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elderly couple, a Larrakia couple. This is up
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in Darwin. I met them in Prap, which is the Aboriginal
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camp there. And we'd just get to talking, little
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stuff like that. Was it a suburb? A suburb, that's
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right, it is a suburb. And then went back later
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and heard that they'd gone, or he died first,
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and she went back to country. Well, she was in
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country anyway, but she went back to an old place
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that was dear to them, and she just passed there,
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very peaceful, and even with a smile on her face.
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Beautiful concept. Cup of tea in hand. Cup of
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tea in hand, that's it. That's how you want to
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go. Yeah. Let's just keep going on. I'll keep
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taking it all away from this until there's no
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more boomerang. No more tea. No more beer. No
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more boomerang. grumpy. Whisper words of love
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to Curry Rose Well, now she's gone It seems We
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should part. She took part of my heart. And only
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God knows how I miss my career road. In the evening
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we'd stroll down by the river. And as the golden
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moon shines brightly up above. The rippling waters
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as the river softly flows I'd whisper words of
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love to Curry Rose Just remember, I still love
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you, Curry Rose Just remember, I still love you,
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Curry Rose Roger Knox Gorgeous. Lovely song.
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One of my favourites. And before that, of course,
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Coloured Stone with No More Boomerang. No more
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spear! Heyo, mate. Waza. Waza. Lovely little
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recording. Obviously done out at Karma, out there
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at Alice Springs. And beautiful instrumentation.
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It's lovely. Almost a little bluegrass -y song.
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He's doing some really lovely stuff at the moment.
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Voice of the outback, in my opinion. Warren's
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got this wide -open plains voice. The voice of
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Australia's heart. Yeah, it's like Nat King Cole
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had a voice of America. But I think Warren's
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the voice of Australia in that way. The same
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way, almost. Next time I pop out to bloody Alice
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Springs, I need to take a little trip off to
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Chambers Pillar, which is almost the centre of
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Australia. Yep, almost. Yep. Geographically.
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I'm sort of kicking myself for not popping out
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there last time. So we've got to go out camping.
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For fuck's sake. Don't be an idiot. Camping is
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good. You've already got a shitload of gear.
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Where am I going to put my oils and salves? Where
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am I going to put my buttermilk? You can put
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them in the fold -up bloody shelf that we can
00:32:39.259 --> 00:32:41.500
get. Because, I mean, you've got all your camping
00:32:41.500 --> 00:32:44.140
gear on a freaking solid shelf in the garage.
00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:46.940
I mean, it's only for show. Pierre Cardin does
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not fit in a fucking swag. True. Because he's
00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:51.579
decomposing, mate. He's dead. You're a dick.
00:32:51.740 --> 00:32:55.440
That's short, fat and frumpy. At only two bucks
00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:58.299
an episode, what have you got to lose? Two bucks,
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I guess. I don't know how they work. See, the
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cassettes, I don't know. VCRs. Cassettes are
00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:07.220
easy, mate. You stick them in the bloody VCR.
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They actually fit in there. No, don't stick it.
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We can't play it then. Stick that in there. Put
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it in there. Press the play button. Press the
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play button. Play, play. Just stick that. Play
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that damn thing there. There. Watch this. Back
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to the... You must have gone swimming in the
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peel. I went skinny dipping a lot with my other
00:37:27.789 --> 00:37:32.570
young male friends when I was a young fella.
00:37:32.710 --> 00:37:35.309
We had a big bloody dam across the river back
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home. I'm still talking about skinny dipping.
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It's enough of that man. We had this dam across
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the river back home and that was the weir for
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us. And we'd go swimming down there with all
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the old mates. I wonder what ever happened to
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them. You know, I often think that. Did some
00:37:51.190 --> 00:37:54.039
of them turn out to be gay? I've got no idea,
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nor do I care. I was talking about my mates.
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I don't know. Mates? Why are we here for crying
00:38:04.179 --> 00:38:05.659
out loud? No, I always thought mates are good
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because especially if you're gay, it's a good
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thing because you can bring your mates over to
00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:12.059
watch the footy and then afterwards you can fuck
00:38:12.059 --> 00:38:16.500
them. Oh, fuck off. I've travelled down some
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dusty roads, both crooked tracks and straight,
00:38:18.699 --> 00:38:20.880
and I have learnt life's neighbourless creed.
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Summed up in one word, mate. I'm thinking back
00:38:24.610 --> 00:38:27.489
across the years, a thing I do of late, and these
00:38:27.489 --> 00:38:30.090
words stick between my ears. You've got to have
00:38:30.090 --> 00:38:33.030
a mate. Someone who'll take you as you are, regardless
00:38:33.030 --> 00:38:35.849
of your state, and stand as firm as air's rock,
00:38:36.010 --> 00:38:39.510
because he is your mate. My mind goes back to
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43, to slavery and hate, when man's one chance
00:38:42.530 --> 00:38:45.789
to stay alive depended on his mate. With bamboo
00:38:45.789 --> 00:38:49.190
for a billy can and bamboo for a plate, a bamboo
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paradise for bugs. Was bed for me and mate. You'd
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slip and slither through the mud. And curse your
00:38:55.480 --> 00:38:58.300
rotten fate. But then you'd hear a quiet word.
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Don't drop your bundle mate. I know it's all
00:39:02.179 --> 00:39:05.280
so long ago. This truth I have to state. A man
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:07.300
don't know what lonely means. Till he has lost
00:39:07.300 --> 00:39:10.380
a mate. If there's a life that follows this.
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If there's a golden gate. The welcome that I
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:16.820
want to hear is just. Good on you mate. And so
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to all who ask us why we keep these special dates
00:39:19.420 --> 00:39:23.380
like Anzac Day, I tell them why we're thinking
00:39:23.380 --> 00:39:25.980
of our mates. And when I've left the driver's
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seat and handed him my plates, I'll tell old
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:31.699
Peter at the door, I've come to join my mates.
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Yeah! Come back again for another weekly adventure
00:39:41.980 --> 00:39:50.260
with Stumpy and Grumpy. If you don't like it,
00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:53.400
who cares? If you do, we'll be back next week
00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:56.639
with another episode of Stumpy and Grumpy.
