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A True Blue Home Grown Love Song
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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
Charts
Peak #161
Peak in subgenre #30
Author
Merv Webster
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Merv Webster
Uploaded
March 20, 2010
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MP3 5.0 MB • 128 kbps • 5:26
Story behind the song
It is a part of Aboriginal law that one cannot marry within his own skin but for one couple their love was far too strong. They fled and lived in the Gibson Desert for forty years before being found and returning to the community. A True Blue Home Grown Love Song
Lyrics
A TRUE BLUE HOMEGROWN LOVE TALE Remember William Shakespeare wrote a story years ago about a girl called Juliet who loved her Romeo. It would seem their getting married was opposed by one and all and ended rather tragically I somehow do recall. But Downunder wea019ve a legend that Ia019d like to share with you a tender lovera019s story and whata019s more folk it is true. It was a018round the nineteen thirties when two sweethearts took a stand against the tribal customs of the people of their land. Yes this tale is one of courage and survival at its best where love wins out against all odds, survives each stringent test. Ita019s a true blue homegrown love tale that will surely touch your soul, about these two young people who got to live this role. In the Gibson Desert Country of the Mandildjara tribe dwelt Warri and Yatungka and these two you would describe as truly star-crossed lovers, though by law their skin was wrong. But these two tribal youngsters found their love was far too strong. They would flee into the Desert to escape from tribal law and live in isolation for some forty years or more. And despite the harsh survival they raised children in that place, But let them wander back in time to folk of their own race. Yes this tale is one of courage and survival at its best where love wins out against all odds, survives each stringent test. Ita019s a true blue homegrown love tale that will surely touch your soul, about these two young people who lives get to play this role. But for Warri and Yatungka they could not go back again for fear of being punished; so they stayed in that domain. But the drought back in the seventies caused others now to send a search party to seek them out; led by a childhood friend. They would fina019lly find the couple, just in time too so they say, and after reassuring them no harm would come their way. Theya019d go back a018mongst their people, where they both lived out their lives and now within this Nation this amazing story thrives. Yes this tale is one of courage and survival at its best where love wins out against all odds, survives each stringent test. Ita019s a true blue homegrown love tale that will surely touch your soul, about these two young people who lives get to play this role. © Bush Poet and Ballad Writer -Merv Webster
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