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Stewie Mudcat Australia-New Zealand Songbook (1356* d) RE: Mudcat Australia/NZ Songbook 29 Jun 21


Another parody of 'The dying stockman'. This one is from Alan Musgrove's 'A Young Man and Able' album. He noted that it is 'a picture of inner Melbourne street life in the 1990s'.

THE DYING JUNKIE
(Alan Musgrove/Trad)

A skinny young junkie lay dying
The kerbstone supporting his head
There were no mates around him a-cryin’
As he lay in a coma near dead

But an ambulance must have been called for
For the bold paramedics appeared
And they gave him a big shot of Narcan
They saved the boy’s life it was clear

Then he screamed at the bold paramedic
‘You bastard, you’ve ruined me stone!’
And he left-hooked the bold paramedic
And he walked down the street to go home

Some days after that I was walking
When I happened to see the same boy
Being bundled into the meat wagon
On a street corner down in Fitzroy

Wrap him up like piece of fresh topside
And bury him deep down below
Where the demons and the wallopers can’t harm him
In the place where all dead junkies go

On the subject of parodies, this YT clip is worth a look if you haven't seen it. It is a parody of Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Shirley Serban, a kiwi lass. The lyrics are in the clip.

Menopause Rhapsody

She is also responsible for this Covid parody:

Do Re Mi

--Stewie.


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