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Don't Call Me Lad
          from Bow Tie & Tails

Don't call me lad
aaaaaaaaaaaaaadad
just don't call me lad
got more hair on my balls dad
than y'v got
aaaaaaaaaaor had

i'm eighteen years old man
& i'll sink or i'll swim
just don't call me lad
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadad
my name is James
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaor just Jim

& now that i vote dad
my party is green
get away with those flags dad
red & blue are both mean

y' can roll up y'r sleeves dad
& slip on y'r tie
y' can rant & lay guilt trips
but i'll spit in y'r eye

yeah i grow some plants dad
but i'm keeping it cool
four's not a plantation
i'm not such a fool

i just can't find a job dad
year twelve was a waste
two friends have just died dad
too much of a taste

yeah i get the dole dad
though it don't do much good
but don't call me lad
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadad
i'd work if i could

now i'm mellowing out man
this home-grown is just wild
so don't call me lad
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa dad
i'm no longer a child

so don't call me lad
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadad
i'm no longer a child.

 

My work has been set on the prescribed text list in Tasmania for Independent Study by English Studies students. Download pdf (116k)

Mark Seymour and the Melbourne Workers' Theatre are working up a new show on building workers. Mark has combined a couple of my poems 'Overtime' and 'The Violence of Work' and has produced a demo of a new song 'Monday to Friday'. I'll keep you posted

Visit the ABC website: hear me discussing my life and my poetry

Fighting racism on the Northern Plains

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Check out Phil Doyle's discussion of my work in the September 2004 Workers Online

Listen to my 18 October discussion with Life Matters' Julie McCrossin

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Jane Sullivan's piece on me in the Age, Sat 30 October 2004

Interviewed by James Griffin on 'The Last Word'

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