Name: The Times Have Changed So Quickly
Duration: 3 min 24 s
Channel: Merv Webster
Description: "The Times Have Changed So Quickly" is a song by Bush Balladeer. Australian Bush Ballad

The Times Have Changed So Quickly

Bush Balladeer

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Bush Balladeer

Australian Bush Poet and Balladeer

The particular style of music I enjoy playing is The Australian Bush Ballad pick and strum style championed by Slim Dusty and Stan Coster. The ballad style of lyrics shares the culture and the characters of my country. I am a member of the Australian Bush Balladeers. http://bushballadeers.com.au/bushpoet.htm I am also a bush Poet and a member of The Australian Bush Poets Association who define bush poetry as rhyming verse with regular metre and true rhyme about Australia, its people, places, things and way of life. http://www.abpa.org.au/

Song Info

Genre

Country • Traditional Country

Author

Merv Webster

Rights

Merv Webster

Uploaded

March 20, 2010

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.1 MB • 128 kbps • 3:24

Story behind the song

Whilst returning from a tour down south we came up the Kidman Highway and camped outside Cobar one night.  After setting up camp I reflected on the comforts we had compared to the Pioneers of old.  The only thing we really had in common was  the fire.  I realized how the times have changed so quickly.

Lyrics

THE TIMES HAVE CHANGED SO QUICKLY

There’s a gentle breeze that’s blowing midst the pine trees here tonight
as I watch the shadows dancing to the campfire’s flick’ring light.
Parked beside me are the comforts of a brand new four-wheel drive
and a modern pop-top caravan to help us folk survive.

Then my thoughts they slowly drifted back to days of long ago;
to the creak of drays and wagons and the cry of Cobb & Co.
Though your battling pioneer spirit is a thing I do admire,
sadly all we share in common is a cosy roadside fire.

How the times have changed so quickly as the cent’ries slip away
but in awe we trace your footsteps with the mod cons of today.                                                                                                      
And I sense beside the campfire there’s still something else we share.
Yes the pride in this great Nation that advanced Australia Fair.

With your bullocks and your horses you trudged down the long red road
always heading further westward searching out a new abode.
And you bore the searing summers heat the chill of winter too
till you found a piece of country where you made your dreams come true.

But just like the wand’ring turtle our home follows close behind,
With our fridge and gas stove with us and a beer or wine in mind.
We enjoy the air conditioning or the heater in our van
Though like you I share a campfire by the roadside if I can.
 
How the times have changed so quickly as the cent’ries slip away
but in awe we trace your footsteps with the mod cons of today.
And I sense beside the campfire there’s still something else we share.
Yes the pride in this great Nation that advanced Australia Fair.

© Bush Poet and Ballad Writer -Merv Webster

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