Lyr Req: Parody, (Across the Western Suburbs)

Subject: Lyr Req: Parody, (Accross the Western Suburbs)
From: Forsh
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 12:17 PM

As some older folkies may have gathered, I am gathering together songs wot me old man sung, and I was too young and ignorant to listen to/learn. Whilest waiting for Words to Moeton Bay Parody, I am now looking for words to parody of 'Across the Western Plains': Here's what I remember of it from 1975/6:

Under concrete & Glass, Sydney's Dissapearing fast,
All gone for profit & for Plunder,
It brings me hart to grieve, for now I have to leave,
And accross the Western Suburbs I must Wander.

Where's me local pub? me little local pub,
where we used to have a drink when we were dry boys?
now y'can't get in the door, cos there's carpets on the floor,
and you wont be served a beer without a tie boys.

That's all I recall, is there any more verses, ? Anyone? :o)

Subject: Lyr Add: ACROSS THE WESTERN SUBURBS (parody)
From:
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 01:20 PM

From http://www.crixa.com/muse/unionsong/u118.html

Across the Western Suburbs
Seamus Gill and Denis Kevans
Tune: Across the Western Plains

Oh me name it is Fred, in Sydney born and bred
And the inner city used to be my home, boys
But it's cased me heart to grieve for I've had to take me leave
Now across the Western Suburbs I must roam, boys
 
Chorus
Under concrete and glass, Sydney's disappearing fast
It's all gone for profit and for plunder
Though we really want to stay they keep driving us away
Now across the Western Suburbs we must wander
 
Where is me house, me little terrace house
It's all gone for profit and for plunder
For the wreckers of the town just came up and knocked it down
Now across the Western Suburbs we must wander
 
Before I even knew it, we were shifted to Mt. Druitt
And the planners never gave me any say, boys
Now it really makes me weep I am just at home to sleep
For it takes me hours to get to work each day, boys
 
What's happened to the pub, our little local pub
Where we used to have a drink when we were dry, boys
Now we can't get in the door for there's carpet on the floor
And you won't be served a beer without a tie, boys
 
Now I'm living in a box in the west suburban blocks
And the place is nearly driving me to tears, boys
Poorly planned and badly built and it's mortgaged to the hilt
But they say it will be mine in forty years, boys
 
Now before the city's wrecked these developers must be checked
For it's plain to see they do not give a bugger
And we soon will see the day if these bandits have their way
We will all be driven out past Wagga Wagga

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody, (Accross the Western Suburbs)
From: Forsh
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 01:40 PM

Thanx George.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody, (Accross the Western Suburbs)
From:
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 01:50 PM

You're very welcome, Forsh. Looks like a nice little song. Enjoy it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody, (Accross the Western Suburbs)
From: Brían
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 02:36 PM

Our own Charley Noble has his own adaptation of this parody which is well worth listening to.

Brían

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody, (Across the Western Suburbs)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 08:02 PM

That's true, Brían, and anyone can find it by searching the threads for "Concrete and Glass" which was adapted for helping win a Portland-Maine referendum in the 1980's to preserve the city's working waterfront from condominium develpment.

The original parody by Seamus Gill and Denis Kevans was composed in Sydney to help defend the adjacent waterfront neighborhood from condominium development on the Woolloomooloo finger pier. Happy to report that in 2001 that neighborhood still survived as a mixed income neighborhood. But the pier with its fleet of luxury yachts is truly an amazing planet to walk on.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody, (Across the Western Suburbs)
From:
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 12:51 AM

Found them, Charley. You had posted as Roll & Go.

Lyr Add: Concrete and Glass
Lyr Add: Across the Western Suburbs

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Parody, (Across the Western Suburbs)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 09:23 AM

The Finger Wharf (just down the road from where I live) is for trendies & short ones at that as the rooms in the swanky hotel have 7 foot ceilings!.

sandra (if you were wondering why it's called the Finger Wharf, well it sticks out from the shore! We have a lot of finger wharves around the harbour, most redeveloped as trendy housing, tho' one is an arts complex.)