Hi Folks, would anyone know or know where I could get a listen to this tune: the Ballad of Mt Nardi. the lyrics are in
Eureka Songs by Arthur Pike
a collection of songs celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade 3 December 1854.
The song is about the protests in northern NSW [New South Wales, Australia] to protect the forests there.
Jacko Kevans would have been the one to ask, this is his neighborhood! He is missed again!    Thanks for any help.       Patrick
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Ballad of Mt Nardi       by Bruce McNicols

Sixty-four arrested for being in the forest.
For being in possession of a different point of view.
It's always been the same, since the convicts came before us.
It's back to the judge, if you stand and tell what's true.

Cops and robbers early, stealing from the forest.
Getting in before us with the law and order frieze.
Grim and never speaking. Gruff and all foreboding.
Treating us like criminals for trying to save some trees.

Chorus: It was Virgin Rainforest, never logged before.
Life giver. Gene pool. Soon it would be gone forevermore.
And violent confrontation was defeating us by degree,
And they were logging the heart of Nightcap Park
For a steamship company.

Little bit of mischief. Little bit of violence.
I could get arrested at all down here today.
And Premier Wran is watching. Voiceless in the silence.
Sometimes we common people seem to have no rights,
We have no say.

'Cause with the Adelaide Steamship Company,
It's dollars make the plan.
And they're wiping out the remnants, as fast as they can.
They're wiping out the remnants, as fast as they can

Note: The demonstration at Terania Creek and My Nardi were critical to the process of transforming these contested
forest areas in northern New South Wales from potential logging dumps to the World Heritage-listed Nightcap National Park.
The Adelaide Steamship Company [who owned the logging company, Standard Sawmills] went bankrupt in the following decade.