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Thread #62697   Message #1267565
Posted By: freda underhill
09-Sep-04 - 10:02 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Moreton Bay (parody)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Moreton Bay (parody)
it may not be the one you're after, but here is a parody of moreton bay done at Gulgong folk festival a few years ago! anyone who's been to sydney and gulgong will recognise the local references.

regards

freda

..One Sunday morning as I was snoring
in Red Hill bunkhouse I chanced to stray
I heard a folkie his fate bewailing
as on that lumpy old top bunk he lay

I am a native of the Glengarry castle
and banished now to the Shannon hotel
they kicked me out of the Carlisle castle
and from the Thurliss that i loved so well!

I've been a folkie at Numerella
at Jamberoo and at Major's Creek
at Wollombi and at Cursed Toongabbie
and at St Albans and Nariel Creek

But of all places of inebriation
of liver failure and drunken males
to the Commercial I have found no equal
excessive swilling now each day prevails

For three long days I was beastly heated
my lips were chapped and my head was sore
my elbow aching from constant bending
as down my thraot all those ales were poured

and many a folkie now from dehydration
sits swilling tankards and frothy ales
until at last reaching saturation
they swagger out of the Prince of Wales

Like all Australians and ancient Irish
we were impressed with a beer and toke
Til a local man standing right beside us
downed sixty schooners of rum and coke

My fellow folkies be exhilerated
that all such pisspots such a pub may find
and when from Gulgong we are liberated
our massive hangover shall fade from mind..

jennyo, sue gee, Rhymin'Simon, Greg Bull and freda underhill
Gulgong chorus cup 31 December 2000