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The Anzac Waltz Dance
02:35
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The Anzac Waltz Dance
In the Mechanics Hall there dancing
It was a bring a plate do
With babies in basket under tables
And folk from near and far to
We were singing and dancing making a din
To the Heel & Toe the Pride of Erin
With a banjo, fiddle and saxophone
Drums and a beat up piano
The band then played an old 3/4
A tune I’d never heard before?
I asked the waltz’s name?
And this is what was explained!
“Can’t say that I know I’m afraid?
But it’s something we’ve always played
They say it came from the Great War
The old folk love its refrain.”
Chorus
It’s the Anzac Waltz they danced
From Gallipoli to France
Just (you) sing cooee
And you’ll be in good company.
There’s dust on boots, heat and flies
Cream puffs, sponges pickles and pies
All dressed up in our Sunday best
There’s tea for some, home brewed for the rest.
There’s an honour roll on the wall
In gold leaf written who went to war
Their families are dancing here tonight
To this old waltz, she’ll be right’.
Music /Lyric V.P. & D.M Brophy 12/13/J. Brown
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Thinking of You Son
05:01
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Too True
A young girl took to running amidst the rows of poppies
With soft grass holding white crosses.
It made me think moment’s like these
They’re memories sewn into the earth
And you can be sure of that, too true
And you can be sure of that, it’s so true.
The cemetery’s are clean, quiet and serine
Not like the way soldiers died in 1915.
Young people every day come to sit and pray
Oh those tears could grow a lone pine.
And you can be sure of that, too true
And you can be sure of that it’s so true.
Upon my lapel a sprig of Rosemary sits
It grew wild in the war soil
It always will remain a symbol of peace
And remembrance when the guns did cease
So don’t forget me cobber a cooee will do
You’ll be coming back real soon and so
When the billies boiled we’ll sit and talk and somehow!
We’ll take stock and start again I know.
And you can be sure of that, too true
And you can be sure of that, it’s so true.
Music/Lyrics V.P. & D.M. Brophy & J. Brown© 12/2013
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Jim Brown & Vince Brophy Melbourne, Australia
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