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  • Em

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  • Intro 1



    On a 
    back 
    block 
    down 
    Verse 1
    Salisbury 
    Plains 

    Ted was 
    born 
    in 
    1895 

    Thrust 
    from the 
    loins 
    on to 
    rusty 
    soil 

    And the 
    cord 
    was 
    cut 
    with a 
    scythe 

    He said 
    "People 
    there 
    are 

    city 
    folk 
    today 

    And they 
    could
    n't 
    tell 

    shit 
    from 
    clay 

    A ripening 
    crop 
    of 
    sto
    bie poles 

    There's 
    no 
    re
    grets 
    when 

    the memory 
    roams 

    That 
    earth 
    is 
    in 
    me bones" 

    Verse 2

    Did 
    his 
    bit in 
    the first 
    World 
    War 

    Took the 
    shil
    ling 
    to 
    fight 
    the Hun

    Mud 
    up to 
    his crotch 
    in Flanders 
    fields 

    And the 
    gas 
    eating 
    out his 
    lung

    He said "Me 
    best 
    mate 
    died 

    hanging 
    on the 
    barbed 
    wire 

    And 
    when 
    the attack 
    was 
    through 

    We 
    took 
    some 
    prisoners 
    to 
    HQ 

    And 
    shared 
    fag 
    and 
    a yarn 
    or two 

    They 
    were the same 
    as 
    me 
    and you" 

    Verse 3
    And I 
    asked 
    old 
    Ted 
    what 
    history 
    meant 

    As he 
    sharpened 
    his 
    hedging 
    shears 

    "What 
    bloody 
    fool 
    question 
    that 
    is my 
    boy 

    lived 
    it for 
    83 years" 

    Verse 4

    See 
    him every 
    year 
    on Anzac 
    Day 

    Swilling 
    beers 
    down at the 

    Rex 
    Hotel 

    He'd laugh 
    with 
    his 
    mates 

    and go 
    deep in 
    thought 

    Where he 
    went 
    even 
    he couldn't 
    tell 

    He 
    said 
    "K
    ing 
    and Country, 

    cock'n'bull 

    We fought 
    just 
    to sur
    vive 

    The 
    anger 
    might 
    have 
    faded 
    still 

    this feeling 
    grabs 
    me 
    deep 
    in
    side 

    guess 
    you could 
    call 
    it pride" 

    Verse 5

    As a 
    navvy 
    on the 
    line 
    in the 
    Nullabor 

    The 
    Depres
    sion 
    left 
    its scars 

    Heaving 
    cold 
    steel 
    rails 
    in the 
    burning 
    sun 

    And 
    freezing 
    beneath 
    the stars 

    He said 
    "If 
    you escaped 

    the 
    susso queues 

    You 
    had a 
    hell of 
    price 
    to pay 

    And 
    when 
    time 
    flowed 
    like 
    an 
    open 
    wound 

    I'd 
    blow 
    me dough 
    on a 
    Sat
    urday 

    And 
    drink 
    the pain 
    away" 

    Verse 6
    And I 
    asked 
    old 
    Ted 
    what 
    history 
    meant 

    As he 
    sharpened 
    his 
    hedging 
    shears 

    "What 
    bloody 
    fool 
    question 
    that 
    is 
    my 
    boy 

    lived 
    it for 
    83 years" 

    On 
    Sunday 
    arvo he'd 
    sit and 
    talk 

    Over a 
    dozen 
    cold 
    West 
    End 

    Of 
    what was 
    gained 
    and 

    what was 
    lost 

    And would 
    never 
    come 
    again 

    Verse 7
    He 
    said 
    "Money 
    you know 

    it 
    comes 
    and goes 

    On 
    booze 
    and rent 
    and 
    fags 

    You can 
    make 
    a fortune 
    on 
    overtime 

    And lose 
    it 
    all 
    on 
    the nag

    But 
    years 
    of 
    toil 
    with 
    a bunch 
    of mates 

    You 
    know it 
    leaves 
    you satisfied 

    Though we 
    never 
    moved 
    a mountain 

    We 
    sure 
    gave 
    it a 
    try" 

    Pick the 
    wheat 
    from the 
    chaff 

    Verse 8
    And the steel 
    from the scurf 

    And the 
    honest 
    man 
    from 
    the 
    li
    ar 

    If 
    wisdom 
    came 
    by 
    other 
    names 

    Ted 
    was 
    earth 
    and 
    fire 



    On 
    the day 
    that 
    old 
    Ted 
    died 

    No- 
    one 
    would 
    have known 

    Buried 
    in a 
    pau
    per's 
    grave 

    He 
    lived 
    and 
    died 
    alone 

    And the 
    727s roared 
    overhead 

    With 
    the 
    drone 
    of the 
    angry 

    roads 

    There seemed 
    a pause 
    for just 
    a while 

    And 
    the silence 
    was 
    heard 

    around 
    for 
    miles 

    And 
    the si
    lence 
    was 
    heard 
    for miles 

    Outro 1


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