Roaring days

(Thomas) On a day not quite like any other In a land both warm and sweet, You were born such a proud, proud daughter A smirk on your face, the world at your feet. Now you move in awkward circles, Now...

Sergeant Small ' Weddings Parties Anything I went broke in western Queensland in 1931, Nobody would employ me so my swaggy days begun I headed out to Charleville, out to the western towns, I was on my...

He came up from the country looking for a job of work, He came from a town that died a slow hard death, And when the train pulled into Spencer Street, he was fast asleep. He opened one eye and he took...

(Thomas) I looked down the street it was bitter quiet, A gentle rain was falling all around, I looked at the brick wall, it was destitute, An uglier piece of architecture you have never found. So I...

Laughing Boy is drowned, Sailed across the sea. Whisky was his daily bread, His like we'll never see, again. And you should have seen him dancing on the tables, It was just like a play. Laughing Boy,...

(Thomas) He stopped to change a tyre out near Warnambool, His Chevy it was all over the road. He pulled into town sometime in the early afternoon, More than a normal travelling salesman, the guitar...

(Thomas) And after all this time why must you be Missing in action, missing in action? And after all these years why must you be Missing in action, missing in action? Replacements were sent, the...

(Thomas) Hey, hey, I see a Melbourne girl on a rusty Malvern Star, Through the spastic Northcote streets at dawn See the way her hair's tied back, Her cheeks so red, a grey coat ragged and worn....

(Thomas) In the summer all the old men, they sit on their front porches, While the women comb their hair, shell their peas And wonder what they've missed. And the forlorn children scan the streets For...

(Thomas) Trams pass me out on St. Kilda Road, Drizzle wet and slow, like thinking, Oh oh, take me down into Young and Jacksons We'll do a bit of serious drinking. Lean on bar, hands in the pockets,...