Thanks, Pat. Big fan of The Triffids am I and hadn't seen this clip. My favourite album is Born Sandy Devotional, the title track of which never made it to the album proper but was later released in an expanded edition. The Dan, as Max says, is a mighty pub in North Fitzroy which has offered its services to singers, poets, drinkers and bulldusters for a good while now.
http://www.thedan.com.au/
Cheers,
Bill
> On 30 Dec 2014, at 10:44 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dan O'Connell Hotel sounds quite a place -very Oz like ballad-
> THE TRIFFIDS - BURY ME DEEP IN LOVE
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0OwLIY9moA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 29 December 2014 21:02
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Bury me deep in the Dan O'Connell Hotel
>
> A day early is my posting as I slide out of Internet contact again tomorrow
> ...
>
> Bury me deep in the Dan O'Connell Hotel
>
> When I can no longer tell dark from light
> Bury me deep in the Dan
> When pushing back dawn takes too much fight
> Bury me deep in the Dan O'Connell Hotel
>
> When standing up only brings me down
> Bury me deep in the Dan
> When Danny Kramer says it's his round
> Bury me deep in the Dan O'Connell Hotel
>
> Find me a niche beneath corner bar
> Deep, deep down in the Dan
> Where cigarette ash smears my sweetheart
> Bury me deep in the Dan O'Connell
>
> But layer me deep, constrain me in teak
> When you bury me deep in the Dan
> Or bugger me dead, my right hand might creep
> From deep in the Dan O'Connell
>
> It might grab me a pint of something dark
> From down there deep in the Dan
> Ah, Hell, yes I may yet leave my mark
> Deep in the Dan O'Connell Hotel
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>
> bw
> 29.12.14
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