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Down A Country Road I Know

from Laugh While You May by Gráinneog

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DOWN A COUNTRY ROAD I KNOW
Phil Garland
Main Vocal, Helen
No album of New Zealand songs could be complete without a song from the late, great Phil Garland(1942-2017). We were lucky enough to host Phil's last Waiheke Island show at the Rocky Bay Folk Club shortly before the great man's sad passing. This lovely song of rural life in Central Otago is from his 1971 album Down A Country Road.

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The city roar is in my ears, the glare is in my eyes.
Yet in my heart I long to see those sunny central skies.
That stretch away and disappear behind those peaks of snow,
and hear the magpies singing, down a country road I know.

There are shearing sheds I shore in, that are scattered on the way.
And I seem to hear the clatter, of the cutters making play.
And the laughter of the shearers, from the days of long ago,
when they called me Jim the Ringer, down a country road I know.

How I raced to hold the ringer's place, and shear it number one.
Chased by the shearers in the gang, and every bloke a gun.
The white wool seemed to fall away, 'neath every perfect blow,
with just half a sheep between us, down a country road I know.

The roustabouts were running, from the tables and the port,
with the fleeces and the pieces, which were classed, a-binned and stored
While the blokes who worked the woolpress, how they made those levers go,
as the bales were sewn and branded, down a country road I know.

When the hard day's work was over, and the sun lies in the west.
And the vivid flash of evening stained that far off mountain's breast,
we would share a smoke and bottle as we watched the shadows grow,
and lengthen into to darkness, down a country road I know.

But the past is gone forever, and the future is yet to be.
while changes made and chances lost, have left their mark on me.
Still I'd like again to wander, where the sunsets come and go,
in old Otago central, down a country road I know..

credits

from Laugh While You May, released June 19, 2021
Helen Cobbett - Vocals
Sammy Leary - Backing Vocals, Guitar
Alan Knight - Backing Vocals, Guitar
Jeff Davis - Mandocello
Ben Cobbett - Fiddle

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