G'day again,

The Stranger

By John Manifold

A stranger came into the district last Week,
He wasn't a Balt and he wasn't a Greek;
We enquired was he Irish? He answered us, No, -
He came from up North where the pineapples grow.

He answered so mannerly, so quite at his ease,
Saying neither too much nor too little to please,
He was hardly a stranger by tea-time, although
He came from up North where the pineapples grow.

We swapped the old stories of famine and flood
And the crook politicians that suck a man's blood;
We had reckoned they might have been local, but no!
It's the same in the North where the pineapples grow.

We tickled his fancy with peaches and cream,
We showed him Polled Angus all sleek as a dream;
He agreed they were "mighty", but still he must go -
He was needed up North where the pineapples grow.

The moral of this is too plain to be spoke:
The bloke on the land is a sensible bloke
Be he brown as a berry, or black as a crow,
Or just from up North where the pineapples grow.

And this is the MIDItext (which you can convert if you downloaded Alan's program... otherwise grab out the ABC scratchings.

MIDI file: stranger.mid

Timebase: 240

TimeSig: 6/8 36 8

Tempo: 100 (600000 microsec/crotchet)

Start

0480 1 64 080 0108 0 64 064 0132 1 69 080 0162 0 69 064 0018 1 64 080 0054 0 64 064 0006 1 61 080 0108 0 61 064 0012 1 66 080 0108 0 66 064 0012 1 62 080 0108 0 62 064 0012 1 59 080 0108 0 59 064 0012 1 64 080 0108 0 64 064 0012 1 57 080 0108 0 57 064 0012 1 57 080 0108 0 57 064 0012 1 57 080 0216 0 57 064 0024 1 64 080 0108 0 64 064 0012 1 64 080 0162 0 64 064 0018 1 66 080 0054 0 66 064 0006 1 68 080 0108 0 68 064 0012 1 69 080 0108 0 69 064 0012 1 71 080 0108 0 71 064 0012 1 68 080 0108 0 68 064 0012 1 66 080 0162 0 66 064 0018 1 64 080 0054 0 64 064 0006 1 63 080 0108 0 63 064 0012 1 64 080 0216 0 64 064 0024 1 66 080 0054 0 66 064 0006 1 68 080 0054 0 68 064 0006 1 69 080 0162 0 69 064 0018 1 67 080 0054 0 67 064 0006 1 66 080 0108 0 66 064 0012 1 64 080 0108 0 64 064 0012 1 62 080 0108 0 62 064 0012 1 61 080 0108 0 61 064 0012 1 62 080 0108 0 62 064 0012 1 64 080 0108 0 64 064 0012 1 61 080 0108 0 61 064 0012 1 59 080 0216 0 59 064 0024 1 64 080 0108 0 64 064 0012 1 64 080 0113 0 64 064 0007 1 64 080 0113 0 64 064 0007 1 62 080 0108 0 62 064 0012 1 64 080 0162 0 64 064 0018 1 65 080 0054 0 65 064 0006 1 64 080 0108 0 64 064 0012 1 60 080 0108 0 60 064 0012 1 57 080 0108 0 57 064 0012 1 57 080 0108 0 57 064 0012 1 57 080 0216 0 57 064

End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format:

X:1

T:

M:6/8

Q:1/4=100

K:C

E6|A3/2E/2^C^FDB,|EA,A,A,2E|E3/2^F/2^GAB^G|

^F3/2E/2^DE2^F/2^G/2|A3/2G/2^FED^C|DE^CB,2E|

EEDE3/2F/2E|CA,A,A,7/4||

Regards,

Bob