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Thread #82882 Message #1531830
Posted By: rich-joy
30-Jul-05 - 09:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: is our Community losing to Corporation?
Subject: RE: BS: is our Community loosing to Corporation?
I thought I should also add the song written in April 2004, when the first physical destruction of the site occurred. Written by another talented local SE Qld singer/songwriter, Noel Gardner :
" Autumn in Maleny "
THERE'S BARE RED EARTH FALLING DOWN TO THE CREEK, IN THE LOWER PART OF TOWN BIRDS ARE FLYING OVERHEAD, CAUSE THEIR HOMES HAVE BEEN CUT DOWN CHOPPERS IN THE AIR, POLICE ACROSS THE GROUND ITS AUTUMN IN MALENY, THE DEEN BROTHERS HAVE COME TO TOWN
NOW THE YEAR WAS 1979 IN BRISBANE, MY HOMETOWN AS VANDALS THEY CAME IN THE NIGHT, AND TORE THE BELLVUE DOWN POLICE WERE THERE TO PROTECT THEM, THAT CONTINUAL BLUE COMPOUND ITS WAS AUTUMN IN BRISBANE, THE DEEN BROTHERS HAD COME TO TOWN
NOW I STOOD DOWN ON THAT CORNER, AS THAT HOTEL TORE APART AND I WATCHED OUTSIDE THE BARRICADES, AS THOSE TALL TREES RIPPED MY HEART OH WHY ARE PROFITS LOUDER, THAN THE PLATYPUS UNDERGROUND ITS AUTUMN IN MALENY, THE DEEN BROTHERS HAVE COME TO TOWN
NOW POLICE ARE THERE FOR COMMUNITY, TO PROTECT & SOLVE ITÅfS CRIME BUT IT SEEMS THERE GUNS FOR HIRE , AS DEVELOPERS CROSS THE LINE TWENTY FIVE YEARS IN QUEENSLAND, THE CIRCLE COMES AROUND ITS AUTUMN IN MALENY, THE DEEN BROTHERS HAVE COME TO TOWN
IN THOSE GREEN HILLS NORTH OF BRISBANE, JUST TWO HOURS DRIVE SHARED IDEALS & VISION WITH PEACE & MUSIC THRIVE BUT CORPORATE GREED & PROFITÅfS HAVE FORGED A BATTLEGROUND ITS AUTUMN IN MALENY, THE DEEN BROTHERS HAVE COME TO TOWN
NOW THERE'S SADNESS WHERE TALL TREES ONCE STOOD, IN BOLD MAGESTIC PRIDE AND A SILT TRAP CATCHES EFFLUENT FROM POLLUTED COMPANY LIES CORNERSTONE & WOOLIES, CORPORATE THUGS RENOWNED ITS AUTUMN IN MALENY, THE DEEN BROTHERS HAVE COME TO TOWN
THERE'S BARE RED EARTH FALLING DOWN TO THE CREEK, IN THE LOWER PART OF TOWN BIRDS ARE FLYING OVERHEAD, CAUSE THEIR HOMES HAVE BEEN CUT DOWN CHOPPERS IN THE AIR, POLICE ACROSS THE GROUND ITS AUTUMN IN MALENY, THE DEEN BROTHERS HAVE COME TO TOWN
You can hear this song - and see a clip of it being performed at a Maleny rally - at this link : http://www.malenyvoice.com/obiobi/Noel_Song/index.htm
As with Tommy Leonard in the last post, similar comments can apply to Noel Gardner too - and he also has 2 CDs available (the names of which - I admit with some embarrassment - have escaped me : blame The Great Mental Pause!!) and he is at present working on a third.