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Thread #14190   Message #120419
Posted By: Alan of Australia
04-Oct-99 - 05:10 AM
Thread Name: Tune Add/Lyr Req: Weevils in the Flour (D Hewitt)
Subject: Lyr Add: WEEVILS IN THE FLOUR (Dorothy Hewett)
G'day,
Here you go:-

WEEVILS IN THE FLOUR

by Dorothy Hewett

On an island in a river
How that bitter river ran
I grew on scraps of charity
In the best way that you can
On an island in a river
Where I grew to be a man.

For dole bread is bitter bread
Bitter bread and sour.
There's grief in the taste of it
There's weevils in the flour
There's weevils in the flour.

And just across the river
Stood the mighty BHP.
Poured pollution on the water
All the lead of misery
And its smoke was black as hades
Rolling hungry to the sea.

In those humpies by the river
We lived on dole and stew
While just across the water
Those greedy smokestacks grew
And the hunger of the many
Filled the bellies of the few.

On an island in a river
How that bitter river ran
It broke the banks of charity
And baked the bread of man
On that island in a river
Where I grew to be a man.

For dole bread is bitter bread
There's weevils in the flour
But men grow strong as iron upon
That black bread and sour.

Cheers,
Alan