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Cheddar Road
03:14
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Cheddar Road my spiritual load
Towards the moon you love to go
I have followed you to Mars
Now all you are is cars!
In the days of yore
Around the genesis of Reservoir
Someone dreamt you up I suppose
Unreal you are Cheddar Road!
Oh I love you Cheddar Road!
In the forties about that time
They put in the old pipeline
The pure genius that truly showed!
People walked their cows up it
Admiring the plops of shit
It was rather primitive then
I kicked the shit with my dad Len!
Oh I love you Cheddar Road!
I used to see The Highland Fling
Met a lady who knew Errol Flynn
The overheated bus it croaked
Up Cheddar Road just for the joke!
I miss seeing its deep pot holes
In its splendid puddles some tadpoles
All the men were Chris or Noel
How I love Thee Cheddar Road!
Oh I love you Cheddar Road!
Unreal you are Cheddar Road!
We waited for the bus all night
The summer moon burning like a light
People out in it were shelling peas!
I still see all the pioneers trudge
Up Cheddar Road in the ooze and mud
All the way from Lalor they have come
To walk the pipeline everyone!
Oh I love you Cheddar Road!
Unreal you are Cheddar Road!
Oh I love you Cheddar Road!
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Bus to Dundas
04:41
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Abandoning Keon Park
In the intricate dark
The old bus went to Dundas Street
I still see the bunion feet
In the melancholy
People wet without a brolly
Up chugged the asthmatic bus
Driven by an apprentice
10 folks on it
We stop, more hop on
Up the back a man named Jack
Making out he’s got a heart attack
Git on...
Get on the bus!
to Dundas!
A couple of farmers sound asleep
Chewin garlic, make you weep
Sitting next to barrels of milk
We ner’more see their ilk
Four miles of ruthless quag
Half way down a couple of hogs
their blonde eyelashes
Fluttering at 2 swaggies ‘’taches
all the hogs, and thru the bogs
The gears got caught up in their cogs
And the young driver had to double clutch
Yeh I don’t like his chances much
Git on...
At last he got off the mud
veering right off Cheddar Road
Lightning comes and so does thunder
On the bitumen we rumbles
There’s a farmer with a goose
Sleeping under paper news
a soldier with the horrors
He’s been on the bus for hours!
Snoozing on me fathers arm
As we sail pass the lit up farm
And right past where they sell the ice
In great big blocks it looks so nice
Git on...
A bob it cost to get the ice
you whack a bob in once or twice
A glittering block comes out
On your toes it lands, you shout!
Exhausted Ancient warrior
down High street where it’s stonier
Swish puddles so enormous
the drunk, he says ‘Tremendous!’
It stops for once at Bell St
the dairy farmers to their feet
roll their bottles down the aisle
In Bell st where they smoke a while
We’re heading now to Dundas street
Dad wakes me from me sleep..
And the driver said:
"..Git off! “
Get of the bus!
at Dundas !
Git on!
Get on the Bus…
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Cheddar Road All-Stars Reservoir, Australia
The Cheddar Road All-Stars project is a collaboration between Reservoir-based songwriters Leo Francis (The Rechords), Cat Canteri (Kutcha Edwards), Justin Bernasconi, Danny Walsh (Danny Walsh Banned) and Emma Peel (PBS FM), and prolific Australian playwright and long-time Reservoir resident, Barry Dickins. It also features an array of special guest performers. ... more
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