NEW RECORDINGS – A SERF’S LAMENT

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I have completed the recording of 18 songs, 14 new and 4 previously recorded in live format with one band or another, all recorded with Slim Pickings at his studio on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales.

Pretty excited with the outcome, all solo on either the Martin or the Guild, a mix of everything from folk ballads to up tempo rockers in keeping with my folk rock mindset and with the usual variety of subject matter.

All these songs were written by me, some recently some have been sitting around unrecorded for a few years, with the exception of 1 song Road Runnin Blind which was written in collaboration with the guitar player from Ashbury Medicine Show Andy Paevelic and I also got a bit of help from a local fellow on Right Of Denial.

A SERF’S LAMENT … all our moneys been spent … a little commentary on the fact that those who are elected to represent the people seem to forget whose money they are spending like drunken sailors. Once they get the combination to the vault they can spend it in haste and spend it to their taste and there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it once they get … other people’s money just so easy to waste.

LYRICS

Other people’s money just so easy to waste Other people’s money once you get the taste

Other people’s money just sitting in a pile spending other people’s money just makes them smile

When its other people’s money you can spend it in haste its other people’s money spend it to your taste

When its other people’s money no need to account its not mine so no reason for doubt

Oh its so easy there’s no need to keep track  Spend it how I want don’t need to pay it back

I can give it to my friends they’ll like me for that  I can buy big toys I can even buy crack

We grant you access to the vault with our money

Like a drunken sailor spending other people’s money

There are supposed to be controls but you find a way around

Now other people’s money nowhere to be found

When you’ve spent all our money you just shake the tree

It falls to the floor and its all mine for free

You didn’t earn that money you just took it from the serfs

Easy to spend for you it has no worth

Oh its so easy there’s no need to keep track  Spend it how I want don’t need to pay it back

I can give it to my friends they’ll like me for that  I can buy big toys I can even buy crack

That pile of our money is not yours to waste to throw around in a drug addled state

That big pile of money is our hard earned it’s there for us not for you to just burn

Other people’s money just so easy to waste Other people’s money once you get the taste

Other people’s money sitting in a pile spending other people’s money just makes them smile

Oh its so easy there’s no need to regret      Spend it how I want don’t need to pay it back

I can give it to my friends they’ll like me for that  I can buy big cars I can even buy crack

Spend it how I want don’t need to pay it back     I can buy big toys I can even buy crack