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Midst the Mulga
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Australian Bush Ballad
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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/
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Genre
Country • Traditional Country
Peak in subgenre #24
Author
Merv Webster
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Merv Webster
Uploaded
March 20, 2010
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MP3 3.0 MB • 128 kbps • 3:14
Story behind the song
Over the years we have toured out through Charleville, Quilpie and Windorah and the Mulga Country. We've had some great times and enjoy the folk who live out that way. They reckon that once you've drunk from the Bulloo then you'll always come back that way.
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MIDST THE MULGA We were westward bound past Quilpie town and touring with our show when we stopped to boil the billy mate and strike me dona019t you know; there was nothing much but mulga on a drought strewn gibber plain, when I wondered how folk lived out here and managed to stay sane. Then I spied this Ringer mending fence, who waved and said, a01CGa019daya01D and I couldna019t help but quiz the man, a01CWhat keeps you out this way?a01D He just paused and tipped his soil, stained hat and yarded in his mind pens of memories hea019d mustered and he answered in a kind. CHORUS Once youa019ve lived out midst the Mulga mate and drunk from the Bulloo, folk say something gets into your blood, therea019s little you can do. No one knows what causes it old son, ita019s just a mystery, so ita019s my guess youa019ll be back this way and that Ia019ll guarantee. What that Ringer told me years ago proved pretty right you know. We just keep on coming back this way and touring with our show. Theya019re a special breed of folk out here beyond the old Buloo, as they make you feel real welcome and the countrya019s magic too. Therea019s a timelessness about the land, no need for push and shove, and the grandeur of the milky way shines brilliantly above. So then head out midst the mulga and experience the wealth of this little piece of Queensland, hear the Ringera019s words yourself. CHORUS Once youa019ve lived out midst the Mulga mate and drunk from the Bulloo, folk say something gets into your blood, therea019s little you can do. No one knows what causes it old son, ita019s just a mystery, so ita019s my guess youa019ll be back this way and that Ia019ll guarantee. © Bush Poet and Ballad Writer -Merv Webster
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