Lyr Add: She'll Be Right (w/RealAudio)

21 Aug 98 - 09:03 AM (#35518)
Subject: Lyr Add: SHE'LL BE RIGHT (w/RealAudio)
From: Ezio

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(Format=Real Audio 3.0, 28.8 mono *** Time=01:18 *** Size=157 kb)
(available on line for a few days only - sorry)
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SHE'LL BE RIGHT

(Eric Bogle)

This old country's going to rack and ruin
All we seem to do is to argue and fight
But let's ignore the fuss, got nothing to do with us
Sit back and relax mate, she'll be right

Chorus:
She'll be right mate, she'll be right mate
Thank God I'm blessed with shortness of sight
So, never mind chum, just sit down on your bum
And have another schooner, she'll be right

This country is full of bludgin' whingin' Pommies
Bitching about everything in sight
Australia's going to the dogs far too many bloody wogs
Kick them all out mate, she'll be right

In Bangladesh the children are still dying
For want of food and they can't get a bite
But never mind Digger, what's another flamin' nigger?
Have another pie mate, she'll be right

So, come on you young people of Australia
And help to make your Fathers see the light
Make them sit and take heed, stretch a hand to those in need
And on that lucky day mate, she'll be right

Chorus:
She'll be right mate, she'll be right mate
When all our Fathers see the light
When they sit up and take heed stretch a hand to those in need
Well on that lucky day mate, she'll be right

--- Sung by Eric Bogle on 'DOWN UNDER' (1981)

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Glossary: schooner=a glass of beer; bludgin'=work shy; whingin'=complaining bitchin'=complaining bitterly; Pommies: English emigrants; wogs; all others migrants except Englishmen

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Background: in Australia they are as apathetic about world event as most nations, perhaps more so than most, as they are that bit further away from the rest of the worls than most countries. Also like many other countries the migrant population comes in for a fair bit of blame if the country is in a bit of mossie. Aussie apathy manifests itself in a -She'll be right- attitude. If things get to tough, and they can't to be bothered to make an effort, they say -Ah, she'll be right- meaning -To hell with it- It's like the -manana- syndrome of Mexican peasants! So, believe it or not, this song is a protest against apathy, the worst social disease of the world today. Eric.
Submitted by E.B.

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21 Aug 98 - 09:25 PM (#35589)
Subject: RE: LYRADD: She'll be right (w/RealAudio)
From: Ralph Butts

Ezio......These don't seem to play - just get gobbledegook on the screen.

Any hints? Thanks.......Tiger

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21 Aug 98 - 11:19 PM (#35601)
Subject: RE: LYRADD: She'll be right (w/RealAudio)
From: Gene

HI Ralph....
I downloaded all 4 tunes and they all play!

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22 Aug 98 - 02:48 AM (#35621)
Subject: RE: LYRADD: She'll be right (w/RealAudio)
From: Ezio

Ralph,

I'm sorry you can't listen at the songs. All of them work fine on 3 computers I've tried so far.

The problem could be bound to the configuration of your browser. If you use MS Internet Explorer, try to save to the disk the RA file and then open it with your RA player. Here you are the steps:

1) in your browser, click with the RIGHT button on the RA file and select the SAVE OBJECT WITH NAME (or something similar - my browser is in italian) option

2) exit from your browser, lauch Explorer, find the downloaded RA file and double click (left button) on it

I do not know how to save files within Netscape Navigator, sorry.

Ciao

Ezio

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23 Aug 98 - 10:59 PM (#35767)
Subject: RE: LYRADD: She'll be right (w/RealAudio)
From: Bob Bolton

G'day Ezio and all,

I don't know how many Kiwi (New Zealand) mudcatters we have, but they might just see this thread and lay a prior claim to wee Eric's song. Back in the late 1950s there was a spell of popularity in Australian Folk circles of songs by an Enzedder; Peter Cape.

His most popular was his song "She'll be Right", which set up various humorous disasters and ended with a phlegmatic chorus saying that "she'll be right" if ... and some unlikely solution. The song had endless extra verses written by NZ and Aussie singers and was 'ripped off' over the next decade or two by several singers who 'wrote' their own versions, removed various degrees from the original and its offspring.

I hope that Eric would regard his song as a folk processing of existing material into a genuine statement on a new aspect of his adopted culture. For those interested in origins, I will post a selection of verses and a MIDI / ABC of the tune (now my home computer has finally re-surfaced after the upgrade from hell).

As a teaser (or this all I remember of the top of my head) the original verse (set in a rural NZ pig hunt) ran:

Well you're hunting in the mountains and your dog sets up a chase
And this porker running at you ... and he doesn't like your face
So you're running - and he's running - and he's crowding on the pace
But - don't worry mate, she'll be right!

She'll be right mate, she'll be right
Don't worry mate, she'll be right
When he slows down to a walk - you can get your feed of pork
So don't worry mate, she'll be right.

There are more rural verses from Peter Cape (who, last I heard of him, had become an Anglican (~Episcopalian) minister. Added verses cover almost all areas of human endeavour and relations. I even wrote one for our Bush Music Club concert Party, back when we socially 'busked' in Sydney - more to let people know what we were doing than make money (we would get enough for a coffe all round!).

Well, you're buskin' in the City - and the crowds are gatherin' round
Throwing money in the hat, and lovin' every sound
When the Hari Krishnas open up ... and you're completely drowned
But - don't worry mate, she'll be right!

She'll be right mate, she'll be right
Don't worry mate, she'll be right
Fling that lagerphone about - Aussie music with a clout
And don't worry mate, she'll be right.But - don't worry mate, she'll be right!

(The lagerphone was a popular improvised instrument in the early folk revival here - a broomstick (and crosspiece) with a few hundred loosey nailed beer bottle tops ... a rubber crutch tip to bounce it and a notched 'rattle stick' to beat it. A fierce instrument to hear and a threatening weapon!)

I'll be back with the rest - sometime - don't worry, she'll be right!

Regards,

Bob Bolton

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26 Aug 98 - 12:32 AM (#35989)
Subject: RE: LYRADD: She'll be right (w/RealAudio)
From: gargoyle

AWSOME!!!!!

Ah never ad no song come thru bfore. Only, jes midi stuff.

Good Lordy, ya cud hear ever word clear as if he were a sittin on da monitar.

Whoaah, life is gran.

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26 Aug 98 - 10:31 AM (#36006)
Subject: RE: LYRADD: She'll be right (w/RealAudio)
From: Dale Rose

I am in there with the gobbledegook crowd. All I ever get is .raýu6¦L@,dZ–ÙP«ÖTÖYÈfÕƒÊÖX \£ZZF í*ÆLëAlØxÐFË©*kÕÖk­òM5mƒÂW@ÍG (and on and on)

I am using NS 4.05, and have RealPlayer 5.0 and G2 loaded~~I keep the 5.0 because one site in particular refuses to work with G2.

On another tangent, someday we need to start a thread with all of our favorite Real Audio sites. I would start with WKSU, WMNF, and Radio YUR. But that is when I have more time, and am better organized!

Oh, the song "sounds" like a good one though, even without the sound!

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28 Aug 98 - 04:04 AM (#36211)
Subject: RE: LYRADD: She'll be right (w/RealAudio)
From: Ezio

Dale,

on my computer I've RealPlayer 5.0 and MS IE 3.02 - I've just installed Netscape v.4.04.

I've discovered that my RA files do NOT work with Netscape (I get the code on screen instead of music) but THEY WORK in MS Internet Explorer.

I've tried to change Netscape configuration to have .RA files saved to disk instead of being opened, but it doesn't works. I'm still gettin garbage on the monitor.

The same file plays good in MS IE while is bad in Netscape on the SAME machine. Therefore the problem should be addressed to the browser configuration.

Any Netscape-GURU is reading this?

Ciao

Ezio

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28 Aug 98 - 09:04 AM (#36229)
Subject: RE: LYRADD: She'll be right (w/RealAudio)
From:

You are right, Ezio, it works just fine in MSIE. (I have it loaded, but almost never use it) It automatically downloaded into a temporary folder, then played as soon as it was down. If I am using NS, sometimes it asks me if I want to download or save to disk, sometimes it doesn't.

Thank you, and it is good!

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28 Aug 98 - 09:22 AM (#36230)
Subject: RE: LYRADD: She'll be right (w/RealAudio)
From: Dale

Whoops, no cookie for the name on MSIE! In other words, Max's cookies recognize the browser, not the machine. (I just listened to your Ice Queen bit~~it sounds like bring tea bolts to old 67, but I know that can't be right!)

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