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Thread #23435   Message #260150
Posted By: Lena
18-Jul-00 - 01:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Something after Roy Bayley
Subject: Something after Roy Bayley
Ok,there's another thread. A couple of months ago we had the extreme luck to have Roy Bayley performing at the Australian National Folk Festival.

Among songs he played,there were two I would like to track back somehow. I'm pretty sure they weren't his.

One Was the song of a soldier. He performed it with the Fagans(australian made family)and Nancy Kerr(familiar to UK fellows)

The last bit went sort of:

The enemy is on the other side/ Wherever you draw the line/ The enemy is the ruling class / Who draws the bloody line/

Not for me/ One,two,three,four/ Not for me,not anymore/

The other one was the song of a Whale,who wakes up one morning to find her companion dead. The refrain was: My soul has been thorn apart/ and I am bleeding/ My heart has been raped/ and I am crying/ all beauty around me/ and I am screaming/ I'm the last of the great whales/ and I am dying// He sang it in the morning,making me cry on my cornflakes. Anyone who could help?!