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Jessica Beth Small
04:25
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The lights come on in town at night
but they don't shine near half as bright
as the light that burns in her soul each night
to guide her angel home
The authorities they got it wrong
they didn't listen and they took too long
left a mothers hope still holding strong
through the love of Rikki Small
Now if you drive out Kelso way
you'll see a shrine upon the way
with a mothers love and words that say
Jessica Beth Small
Jessica Beth Small
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2. |
Loaded Man With a Gun
03:37
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Loaded Man With A Gun
Should believe in moderation but we live in excess
should believe in communication but we only express
should believe in seeing stars but we're all city lights
half a culture behind bars yet we talk of human rights
Look at all of history to see what we've become
just another loaded man with a gun
and all of evolution sees us standing in the sun
just another loaded man with a gun
The worst thing in our history that ever has been done
was back in nineteen forty something when you dropped the bomb
now you walk around the world and point your finger at everyone
you think you are the saviour that your the kingdom come
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Gamilaroi Man Wiradjuri Sung
From the small town of Walgett out on the north-west plains
through the curse of intervention there, people still feel the pain
being trucked around and driven off the land
when the white man took it from the black mans hand
when the white man took it from the black mans hand
His journey began back in seventy six
his journey became a spiritual fix
he came to play football for the red and the black
he come into Bathurst with a story on his back
he come into Bathurst with a story on his back
Gamilaroi man Wiradjuri sung........
He found himself out in the Wollemi
with his feet on the ground and his head in the sky
he wiped his brow with the ochre on his hands
he found his dreaming out at the Black fellers Hands
he found his dreaming out at the Black fellers Hands
Three old men come out of thin air
old John and Wyndradyne and his nephew were there
they took him up into an old mans cave
they whispered to him and this message they gave
they filled him full of the spirits of old
and said follow this feeling inside your soul
you gotta follow this feeling inside your soul
Gamilaroi man Wiradjuri sung.......
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4. |
On Meeting the Wiradyuri
05:25
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On Meeting The Wiradyuri
Well i've seen a lot of changes living here in my hometown
after several generations now i stand and look around
and my heart it is breaking cause i just don't understand
how we have broken and destroyed her, our motherland
now the town is full of strangers and i am one as well
as we all go through these changes now only time will tell
yet my heart it is breaking cause i just don't understand
why were making so much trouble for our fellow man
The Wiradyuri will tell you, bout the stories they've been told
from living closely with there mother while us kids were running wild
now my heart it is aching as i hope to understand
as i'm reaching for the comfort of my sisters hand.
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5. |
Sooner or Later
03:26
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Sooner Or Later
Sometimes early sometimes late
sooner or later you gotta meet you fate
and when you get to the pearly gates
say hello from me to Peter
and tell him he'll be missed
cause we've closed the gates to heaven
tell him he's dismissed
blood is mud and bones are dust
if God don't take you then the devil must
if into that pit your thrust
say hello from me to Satan
and poke him in the eye
kick him while he's down
and tell him he's a lie
yeah tell him he's a lie.
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6. |
All Over the Moon
02:58
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All Over The Moon
In the light of day somewhere
somewhere in the light of the day
there are people walking
somewhere in the light of the day
In the dead of night out there
out there in the dead of the night
there are people waiting
out there in the dead of the night
When you look into there hands
you see there worn from working
you see there worn from working
On the crowded streets one day
one day on these crowded streets
people will come together
one day on these crowded streets
Gotta reach down deep inside somehow
you gotta reach down inside
love is held within
somehow, you gotta reach down inside
And when you look into your heart
you will see forever and you'll remember
all over the moon, all over the moon.
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Drifter
03:56
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Drifter
Could dissolve like salt in water
melt away like ice in a gin
wash away like the sand on a shore
when a wave crashes in
drift away like smoke from a fire
fly away from a centrifugal spin
blow away like a paper down the street
as a storm closes in
I'm a drifter...
Fly away with a flock of birds
run with the river in spring
curl up on a cloud at night
waiting for the rain to begin...
I'm a drifter...
Shoot away like a stray neutrino
blow away with the desert sands
always falling with folded arms
into my guardian angels hands
I'm a drifter....
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8. |
Radio Heaven
04:40
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Radio Heaven
Driving down the road, it's a quarter to eleven
you turn the dial to radio heaven
and the musics playing slow and perfectly in time
there's an interview with Moses he's complaining about these times
You're slowly going nowhere cause you got nowhere to go
you left your fate behind you about 10 miles ago
and the angels up above you, keeping perfectly in time
as your soul rides on, you leave your troubles behind
did you think of what i told you as your gliding through the night
if you ever get to heaven, please don't tell me what it's like
cause i hope to make my own someday, heaven knows i might
you lost sight of the road, blinded by the lights
Driving down the road a quarter to eleven
you turn the dial to radio heaven
and the angels up above you are lifting you high
as your soul rides on you leave your troubles behind..
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Homeless
04:02
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Homeless
They say home is where the heart is
but hearts get broken
then you'r homeless for a while
you slowly lose your smile
praying it will end
but like a reed in the wind
the truth won't break but it'll bend
and the truth inside a man
is sometimes knowing
his hearts not gonna mend
Then you're homeless, aint no end to homeless
not the kind of homeless
that comes from a broken heart
and you're shameless, easy to be shameless
when drinking kills the pain
of a broken heart...
They say look before you leap
lest you might fall
cause drinkings got you stumbling like a fool
so many times
you can't get up no-more
and like a diamond in the ground
aint worth nothing till it gets found
sometimes being found upon the ground
is where the story ends..
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10. |
Wollemi
03:22
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Wollemi
The winter wind blows along the Wollemi
down Nullo mountain and across the great divide
in a cave down on the western side
the hands that once were painted there have gone
no longer held inside
A shooting star up in the southern sky
like a tear was falling
from the old mans eyes
it lights the streams
that run across the Wollemi
as the breeze blows out along the western plains
into the bye and bye.
Nurtured by the earth our mother
embraced within the hands of time
to be a part of all creation
as the sun sets down to rise again and shine
upon the wollemi.
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11. |
Song From a Broken Man
02:35
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Song From A Broken Man
I took a song from a broken man
i'll sing it now the best i can
he let his feelings slip through his hands
i took a song from a broken man
i stole a dream from his open heart
he left it bear it got torn apart
its like he wanted me to play my part
i stole a dream from his open heart
and he was a child of God
as natural as the rain
and i went to hold his hand
when i heard his sad refrane
i could not let it go
through the trouble and the pain
from the bottom of my heart
i will sing his sad refrane
I left his woman out in the cold
after everything i'd been told
i left her there to get frail and old
i left his woman out in the cold
but when i took his child away
thats what broke him he would say
yet on his land i had come to stay he said
please don't take your hand away...cause...
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Blessed Be Love
06:55
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Bless dear father sun
and sweet mother earth
give praise to the spirit
for our sacred birth
give thanks to the stars
in the sky world above
give thanks for each other
blessed be love
Bless grandfather moon
our dear mother moon
and the rivers that run
to the sacred lagoon
bless the water of life
and our dear sacred dove
give thanks for each other
blessed be love
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