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Hippie Dribble
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A song I wrote a few years back for my friend Brum...
Mick used to be my cricket coach. He's always been a rootless wanderin' boy.
He used to rent a place in East Devonport on the north-west coast of Tasmania, known as the docking point of the 'Spirit of Tasmania', the huge passenger and cargo ship that links the island to the mainland of Australia.
The Edgie was the pub closest to the terminal. We spent many an hour there watching folks come and go, blowing through like clouds. I guess at that point we were both barflies, dreaming of a way out of where we were, and of love. It was a sad town, a place you went on the way to somewhere else.
Anyway, last year Brum finally did it; it did take him 50 years but he left on that very same ship that we used to watch through our glass canoes. I hear he's doing great, even got himself a girlfriend. I look back on those years with a bittersweet regret, and wonder even now whether I should have left with him.
The Edgewater Hotel is still there, and, this song, as my paean to that pub and those times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj9wcqDmWWg
thanks for watching everyone. Blessings,
jon
Mick used to be my cricket coach. He's always been a rootless wanderin' boy.
He used to rent a place in East Devonport on the north-west coast of Tasmania, known as the docking point of the 'Spirit of Tasmania', the huge passenger and cargo ship that links the island to the mainland of Australia.
The Edgie was the pub closest to the terminal. We spent many an hour there watching folks come and go, blowing through like clouds. I guess at that point we were both barflies, dreaming of a way out of where we were, and of love. It was a sad town, a place you went on the way to somewhere else.
Anyway, last year Brum finally did it; it did take him 50 years but he left on that very same ship that we used to watch through our glass canoes. I hear he's doing great, even got himself a girlfriend. I look back on those years with a bittersweet regret, and wonder even now whether I should have left with him.
The Edgewater Hotel is still there, and, this song, as my paean to that pub and those times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj9wcqDmWWg
thanks for watching everyone. Blessings,
jon
