I'll look out for some of Paul Kelly's stuff, cheers.
On 3/22/07, Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >I used to work on Vestey's freezer ships. The Vestey's should be more
> >infamous than they are; they keep themselves - and their money - to
> >themselves. I'm afraid Fray Bentos never recovered it's reputation for
> >me, and I used to wolf down FB corned beef, meat pies and things in
> >the 70s. It's almost as bad as the way tuna is treated after it's
> >caught.
>
> >Roger
>
>
> Which now leads to a moment where two threads meet (meat? Oooh)
>
> Two of Australia's great songwriters, Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody,
> co-wrote a song (From Little Things Big Things Grow) about the Wave Hill
> walkoff of 1966, where Gurindji stockmen walked off a cattle station to
> protest their appalling treatment by the owner. There's a great line
> about the owner:
>
> "Vestey was fat, with money and muscle
> Beef was his business and broad was his door."
>
> Paul Kelly's lyrics are studied as poetry in Victoria. His song "From St
> Kilda to Kings Cross" somehow incorporates Bergsonian metaphysics into a
> bus trip ("and all around me felt like all inside me, and my body left
> me"), and still has the killer line at the end:
>
> "I'd give you all of Sydney Harbour, all that land and all that water,
> For that one sweet promenade."
>
> caleb
>
>
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