Тексты песен «Redgum»


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Redgum - A.S.I.O.

White door, ninth floor, silent number, it's autumn on a cold avenue Telex intercept, he sips a cigarette, warms up his V.D.U. He gets his kicks from microchips, orders from the C.I.A. Birobugs and lasers, casual...

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Redgum - Beaumont Rag

I am a wealthy barrister About 100 bucks a word I've got a plum stuck in my mouth I'm really such a Really such a turd I attended PAC I meet a wife at the prefects' ball I am the elder fotheringay And she was...

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Redgum - Carrington Cabaret

Are you proud white Australians wherever you are? Beer in your hand and your elbow on the bar All you people from Darwin to the south With your blue faded jeans and a joint in your mouth Young sophisticates making the...

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Redgum - Caught In The Act

Change your name, get a new address All it takes is gall Fifty-five bucks a week's no social security at all It's a form of reprisal, a song of survival Keep your morals intact Don't be naive, you're stealing from...

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Redgum - Diamantina Drover

The faces in the photograph have faded And I can't believe he looks so much like me For it's been ten years today Since I left for Old Cork Station Sayin' I won't be back till the drovin's done For the rain never falls...

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Redgum - Fabulon

Buy a litre of Fabulon Dare we spray down In the scorched trail of a Sunbream iron Paint your face with Revlon To hide your frown In the blue gloam glare Of your Rank Television Carry it away from Myers now...

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Redgum - H.M.A.S. Australia

Here I am again in the ship's post office I want to send a telegram Send it to the captain Asking where the hell I am I've been on this luxury cruise For twenty five years or more And I've just begun to wonder Where...

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Redgum - I Was Only 19

Mum and Dad and Danny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal It was a long march from cadets The sixth battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the card We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we left...

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Redgum - I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green)

Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing-out parade at Puckapunyal It was a long march from cadets. The sixth battalion was the next to tour, and it was me who drew the card. We did Canungra, Shoalwater before we left...

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Redgum - I Was Only Nineteen

Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing-out parade at Puckapunyal It was a long march from cadets. The sixth battalion was the next to tour, and it was me who drew the card. We did Canungra, Shoalwater before we left...

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Redgum - I Was Only' (A Walk In The Light Green)

Mum and Dad and Danny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal It was a long march from cadets The sixth battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the card We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we left And...

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Redgum - I've Been To Bali Too

Qantas flight 20, Denpasar, meals and accom', rent-a-car I've been to Bali, I've been to Bali too Took a two week course at a suntan clinic So lying round legian and I wouldn't look anaemic And you can't impress me,...

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Redgum - Killing Floor

Joe spoke no english but he had a dream And he saved up most of his pay To bring his wife and six kids from Lebanon And settle down here to stay You could feel the prison of his loneliness He wouldn't see them for...

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Redgum - Letter To B.J.

Can you hear me Bjelke-Petersen From your leather padded chair? There's a tide outside your door Steadily rising It's a simple case of freedom And a lot of us who care And if demonstrations aren't enough Well I hope...

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Redgum - One More Boring Night In Adelaide

Well it's one more boring Thursday night in Adelaide And it looks like everybody must have died There's no one on the streets and nothing on TV Well I think I'll go and burn my TV guide Doesn't Ernie Sigley bring you...

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Redgum - Peter The Cabby

Peter's a cabby on Adelaide roads And in five o'clock traffic that's a hard road to hoe Hunts for his family in a Holden with a two-way and meter And there's no air conditioning where he plies his trade On the green...

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Redgum - Poor Ned

Poor Ned, you're better off dead At least you'll get some peace of mind You're out on the track They're right on your back Boy they're 'gonna hang you high Eighteen hundred and seventy eight Was the year I remember so...

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Redgum - So Goodbye

I loved your home at Springfield And your chauffer-drive Jag But the afternoons at the yaucht squadron Rally are a drag Your country home at Aldgate Your horses and your friends The alcoholic sunsets, the pleasure never...

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Redgum - Spark Of The Heart

It's a harsh dry land, it breaks your back and scars and gnarls your hands Now carcasses rot in the sun and dust silts up the dams Sacked two men when the postie poked those blueys through the flyscreen doors The...

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Redgum - Spirit Of The Land

The rivers are dry across the land and the farmers fields have turned to sand 'Cause the rain hasn't come for two years going on three The topsoil's gone with the hot north wind, the crops won't grow and rust set in And...