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It's Time to Stop the Rumours Lads
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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 #69
Author
Merv Webster
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Merv Webster
Uploaded
March 20, 2010
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MP3 3.6 MB • 128 kbps • 3:55
Story behind the song
Throughout the years their have been a number of characters who have laid claim to being Dan Kelly or Steve Hart and that they survived the siege at Glenrowan. Catholic Priest, Matthew Gibney who was present tells his story.
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ITa??S TIME TO STOP THE RUMOURS LADS My name is Father Gibney and I am a Catholic Priest who cana??t abide false rumours and thata??s to say the least. Ita??s time I spoke about the facts and how I played a part in finding Daniel Kelly and his side kick Steven Hart. To all and sundry who proclaim those two boys lived and fled youa??re ill informed because that day I found the two lads dead. I saw them lying side by side and looking quite composed and sensed the final chapter of these two lada??s lives now closed. Ita??s time to stop the rumours lads and let the truth be heard. I know folk love conspiracies but these tales are absurd. Ita??s time to let those two boys be and let them rest in peace and all this laying claim to fame in their names has to cease. They lay there fully stretched out with their armour off one side, some bags served them as pillows and thata??s gospel how they died. The Constable James Dwyer said he saw the boys as well and recognized Dana??s wounded knee, thata??s how that he could tell. He swore at the Commission that he recognized young Dan. His black hair and complexion sure identified the man. So all of you pretenders, and there has been more than one, leave Dan and Steve to rest in peace youa??ve had your bit of fun. Ita??s time to stop the rumours lads and let the truth be heard. I know folk love conspiracies but these tales are absurd. Ita??s time to let those two boys be and let them rest in peace and all this laying claim to fame in their names has to cease. Therea??s more to these boysa?? story than the outlawry they played. Ita??s more about lifea??s Battlers and how they were betrayed. I dona??t condone the methods they were pressured to play out and God himself will judge those folk of that I have no doubt. I sense that all the families have suffered long enough and having their names used in vain is really pretty tough. It might be good for tourism to stir the billy mate, but I prefer to tell the truth and set this matter straight. Ita??s time to stop the rumours lads and let the truth be heard. I know folk love conspiracies but these tales are absurd. Ita??s time to let those two boys be and let them rest in peace and all this laying claim to fame in their names has to cease. © Bush Poet and Ballad Writer -Merv Webster
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