• 1788-Welc
  • 1788
    One man, landed on the eastern shore today White sails in a red sunset, we came from far away New land, a new hope, for the free settlers that came But spent ni...
  • 5 Am
    Well it's 5am and I'm driving through to Alice once again And the sun is coming up on my right Ten long years of working 70 hour weeks, And I've been working fo...
  • A Black and White Picture
    A million miles for every year that you went away, A thousand long winters to know where you lay. I barely remember the soldier that left me, Alone on the doc...
  • A Story To Tell
    Festival season is here The hippies all smoke pot, but I just drink beer The kids all flip biscuits and stay up all night But we're in bed early because we are ...
  • All The Truth And Lies
    All the truth and lies, Open your eyes Hot sun is burning, for years on this sacred ground And the wheels are turning, pulling the inside out There's a mounta...
  • Armentieres
    Mademoiselle from Armentieres, How two short months turned to two long years. We drank our trouble in wine and songs, The tune that says this war will end and...
  • Away Away
    A picture is worth a thousand words But it can barely scratch the surface Of what I have seen and heard And while all around is worthless I see you in sepia I ...
  • Bakery Hill
    Every building has a floor, every nation has a past Each person has a journey, each direction has a path Every people has a champion, a patriot, a fight So we r...
  • Believers
    At the first light if the sun they were waiting makers Of the movement when the flag takes the breeze. The drums of an army they are beating And the voices of t...
  • Bombs Falling
    Bombs fall on the city streets, police vans and sirens, Can we say, that liberation is closer now? Can we say, sign of the times? Fuelling incentives, with ulte...
  • Bordeaux
    Burn, Burn, the fire in his eyes The step to take a million miles moving with the times All the cheer, and drinking beer on April 25 Of how he danced the night ...
  • Breakdown
    I feel the need to get away, and find a code into the sun The people that were turned away, have nowhere left to run It's a polarised and subsidised government ...
  • Catching The Sun
    Catch the sun On a tram to Essendon See the red sunset go down behind the bridge Hear the hum Of everyone on their way home Half a pack of cigarettes but nothin...
  • Coming Down
    Once upon a time was a long time ago, You were in the scene that I used to know Remember running down to the mall, Feeling like we could climb the walls We wer...
  • Davey
    He said 'tonight I drink with you my friends, It's a moment in time and it won't happen again, Years of these wages, pissed against the wall And tomorrow we are...
  • Eastside Burning
    While the city sleeps the world is turning around And the prison on the east side, is burning to the ground. Riot squads and police, had closed the city streets...
  • Fade
    Time, is catching up on me again Like an old friend, coming home again There's a place, where it's easier to remember a face So far away, everything changed And...
  • Fortune And Gold
    Eight months on a stormy sea, this is the tale of a mutiny Of a merchant and soldiers, of treasure and gold Of a captain and crew, whose loyalty sold A plan is ...
  • Journey Of A Thousand Miles
    Two baby boys, born on an island far to the north A life determined by skin, that was as brown as the earth Stolen away, from a mothers who's cries Can be heard...
  • Learning Slowly
    Seems not that long ago, I was just a boy High hopes and aspirations, were only a matter of time When you came into the world, I couldn't have known the change,...
  • Macpherson's Rant
    Farewell, ye dungeons dark and strong, Farewell, farewell to thee MacPherson's rant will no be long Upon the gallows-tree Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, Sae daun...
  • Oceans Of Blue
    We will ride on these oceans of blue For it's all we've ever known to do So we will ride on these oceans of blue Hell hath no fury like a storm from the south, ...
  • Raymond O'Byrne
    Young boy leaves his home, to seek adventure in a foreign land A young boy sails away, on the journey that will make him a man And I wonder what were we fighti...
  • Salamanca
    Hobart Town, winter time grey buildings look like icebergs by the ocean Summer time a cool south wind, keeps a mind from melting Ships roll in through the entra...
  • Scarlet Snow
    Jimmy stood in the centre of the town, Said 'come one, come all I've news to tell, All men of age and fit, are asked to do their bit, For duty binds us all to k...
  • Scots Wha' Ha'e
    Scots Wha Ha'e Scots Wha Ha'e Hear the cry of Scotland, Scots Wha Ha'e Scots Wha Ha'e Scots Wha Ha'e Sing it from the highlands Scots Wha Ha'e 'Scots, wha hae...
  • Sheppards Town
    In Sheppard's Town the cars go round, with stereos that shake the ground Two hotels and the Saturday game, the hand on the clock is slow to change When the fact...
  • Sing Me A Song
    If you sing me a song, you know I'll come running Whistle me that tune that brings a tear to my eye The past is now behind us, sing songs about the future Share...
  • Swings And Roundabouts
    In an out, up and down, it's the same old Things we do and say everyday Waiting for the weekend when the week has just begun Captured in the moment as the minut...
  • Tale Of A Convict
    All aboard for foreign shores, to sail upon the sea The cat-on-nine to keep in line prospective mutiny Seven years of transportation and slavery Breaking these ...
  • The Hardness Of His Hand
    She's getting tired of walking into doors He spending more time at the boozer And in a small town there's an ear on every wall, Some say there are no secrets A...
  • The Longest Holiday
    Once more, time just a getaway to solve problems But we could drive forever and you'll never be the one She said but I have been waiting so long,, and you won't...
  • The New Minority
    They came with the salvation eyes And a palpable taste for freedom From years of famine and occupation To welfare lines and indignation So give us this day, our...
  • The Old Dark Brown
    I heard yesterday you were moving up north, I hope you find what it is you're looking for When the payouts were gone, and the work finished up It's just a town ...
  • The Power Of Youth
    I caught the train from Gosford just to see you, Down bluestone alleyways, the inner west in the August rain Everyday I think of what you said to me, How we mus...
  • The Rising Tide
    Buildings getting taller And the days are getting warmer People come from miles around The holiday sun in a seaside town The water's warm and rising, the water ...
  • Union Man
    Clocking in, clocking out again We walked the Hungry Mile in the darkness and the rain, Sweet salvations - bare knuckle brawling, getting drunk as fuck on whisk...
  • Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
    It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying O...
  • Wandering Man
    Tired eyes, as he looks into his glass Tattoos on his skin that tell stories of the past Can't see the memories, trapped inside his mind Can't see the tale unto...
  • Welcome To The World
    A soldier stands outside a gate, A barbed wire fence, to protect a foreign land from itself And bombs of the west rain down on a city Where a family with nothin...