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Thread #7215 Message #3437195
Posted By: Bob Bolton
15-Nov-12 - 09:42 PM
Thread Name: Info & stories about John Greenway
Subject: RE: Info & stories about John Greenway
G'day Charley,
The tale of the "Great Right Shift" origins are interesting. I don't really know anybody, still around, who could appropriately comment on the account I had from Chris Kempster. Political leanings were worn quite openly in those days ... but I always viewed Chris as a fairly balanced moderate ... strong values for a peoples' muusic ... but less concerned with doctinaire politics.
I will try to sound out a few of the old hands ... but it's all water under the bridge ... down the harbour ... through the heads ... and a couple of turns round the circumpolar current - by now!
I will be posting the straight Henry Lawson version his poem (and the variously modified song, therefrom) ... about "Texas Jack" ... who, I was told some decades back, had put on his Sydney performances in an "indoor circus area" created by de-pannelling a removeable part of the second floor level of the Marcus Clark (retail shop) Building in Railway Square, near Sydney's Central Railway Station.
Seven or eight decades later, I arranged use of the Marcus Clark Staff Room ... 5 floors further up - a small room 'snuggled in the middle of the roof area' of the Marcus Clark Building ... for the Bush Music Club's Tuesday Night song-session / Club meeting.
I would have loved to know then of the connection to Henry Lawson;s poem ... and "Texas Jack"!
Regards,
Bob