The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104997   Message #2159515
Posted By: ClaireBear
28-Sep-07 - 03:53 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hard Hard Times (Eric Bogle)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hard Hard Times (Eric Bogle)
There are a couple more very strong lines that aren't posted above but are in the "My Songbook" version, and I recall hearing those lines in the Bogle version I used to have on vinyl. Did Eric record two different versions of this song?

Those lines are:

His dreamtime people run wild and free
Pitjanjara, Aranda and Gurindji
But the dreamtime's finished and so is he
Hard hard times

Poor Jackie's a stranger in his own land
Hard hard times
Living in a world he can't understand
Hard hard times


The first part is the second half of a verse, and the second part is a first half. The whole song is reshuffled a bit.

Claire