1. |
Go! Go! Go!
03:43
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Go! Go! Go!
w&m Rod Boucher 1974 Adelaide Australia
Youda hada betta wanta getta liddle bitta better, know what I mean?
Oh well (Oh Well) You know (You know)
There ain’t no use in laying around in bed.
Ain’t no use in sitting there scratching our head.
Take up the body and hit that road instead.
Now there musta been something much more to do today,
Musta been times when we thought about a different way.
Take up the body and hear us when we say.
If we wanna see a little better x x riff
If we wanna live a little better x x riff
Gottabe Gottabe Go - Go! Go! Go!
Gottabe Gottabe Go - Go! Go! Go!
Gottabe Gottabe Go - Go! Go! Go!
Gottabe Gottabe Go-----.
INSTRUMENTAL piano
Take a little time to talk to the people around,
take a little time they’ll tell us what they’ve found.
Take up the body and get our feet on the ground.
If we wanna see a little better x x riff
If we wanna live a little better x x riff
Gottabe Gottabe Go - Go! Go! Go!
Gottabe Gottabe Go - Go! Go! Go!
Gottabe Gottabe Go - Go! Go! Go!
Gottabe Gottabe Go-----.
Youda hada betta wanta getta liddle bitta better, know what I mean?
Oh well (Oh Well) You know (You know)
Gottabe Gottabe Go - Go! Go! Go!
Gottabe Gottabe Go - Go! Go! Go!
Gottabe Gottabe Go - Go! Go! Go!
Gottabe Gottabe Go-----.
Gottabe Gottabe Go - Go! Go! Go!
Gottabe Gottabe Go - Go! Go! Go!
Gottabe Gottabe Go - Go! Go! Go!
Gottabe Gottabe Go-----.
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2. |
Woolloomooloo Lulu
02:58
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Woolloomooloo Lulu
w&m Haydn Hill, Valdis Adamsons, Rod Boucher 1971 Adelaide
Woolloomooloo Lulu, what’ll I do.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, what’ll you do.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, what’ll she do.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, what’ll we do.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, won’t you say woo woo.
Go girl Go, Go.
See the baby on the ocean pier
give the boys the eye to come on here.
See the baby she’s a’waitin’ all day
for the sailor man to come her way.
She’s a baby and they need her so,
Woolloomooloo Lulu, Go girl Go, Go.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, what’ll I do.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, what’ll you do.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, what’ll she do.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, what’ll we do.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, won’t you say woo woo.
Go girl Go, Go.
INSTRUMENTAL piano
Takes their money and she takes their pay,
tells ‘em come again some other day.
She’s a woman drivin’ you insane,
bring you pleasure and she brings you pain.
She’s a baby and they need her so,
Woolloomooloo Lulu, Go girl Go, Go.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, what’ll I do.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, what’ll you do.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, what’ll she do.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, what’ll we do.
Woolloomooloo Lulu, won’t you say woo woo.
Bell bottom boogie
INSTRUMENTAL guitar “HEY!”
Bell bottom boogie.
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3. |
Raw Prawn Polka
03:35
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Raw Prawn Polka
w&m Rod Boucher 1971 Adelaide
INSTRUMENTAL accordion
INSTRUMENTAL accordion Daddle ah da da da da da
INSTRUMENTAL accordion Woop!
Raw Prawn Polka, you’ve been so good to me.
Raw Prawn Polka, I love you can’t you see?
INSTRUMENTAL guitar
INSTRUMENTAL accordion Woop!
Raw Prawn Polka, you’ve been so good to me.
Raw Prawn Polka, I love you can’t you see?
Gee, its great to be alive
when I’m holding you tight.
Gee, the time is coming soon
when I hear you say, “I love you.”
Raw Prawn Polka, Oh honey hear me say.
Raw Prawn Polka, you took my heart away.
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Every little bit of Australia
w&m Rod Boucher 1973 Adelaide
Every little bit of Australia is a little bit of you and me.
Every little bit of Australia is a little bit of you and me.
We’ve got the Kindy’s and Beginners and the Primary Schools
where the kiddies learn to read and write.
We’ve got the Colleges and Universities
for the ones that seem so bright.
We’ve got the Technical, Trade School, Apprentices
for those who like to use their hands
and all the rest left over, get to sing in rock’n’roll bands. Well
Every little bit of Australia is a little bit of you and me.
Every little bit of Australia is a little bit of you and me.
We’ve got the footy on a Saturday afternoon
where everybody rants and raves.
We’ve got the big American Supermart
where the house-husbands shop and save.
We’ve got Clubs and Tattersalls, TAB
where we try to win a quid
but the Tele and the all-night radio,
one of the best things we ever did. Well, well.
Every little bit of Australia is a little bit of you and me.
Every little bit of Australia is a little bit of you and me.
We’ve got the Swan and the Torrens and the Brisbane too,
all the rivers run through the towns.
We’ve got Sydney Harbour, the Murray and the Yarra
where the water is thick and brown.
We’ve got the Snowy and the Ord and Pine Gap
that were put there for our sake
but to bung the politicians in Canberra
was the smartest move to make.
Now the First Nations people
have been here since Dreaming Time.
They’ve got birds and animals all their own,
it’s a land as old as time.
We’ve got cities and towns and migrant friends,
a great Australian dream---,
so take all your papers and tins and things,
and “Keep Australia Clean”.
Every little bit of Australia is a little bit of you and me.
Every little bit of Australia is a little bit of you and me.
Every little bit of Australia is a little bit of you and me.
Every little bit of Australia is a little bit of you and me.
Every little bit of Australia is a little bit of you and me.
Every little bit of Australia is a little bit of you and me.
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5. |
No Worries Luv
03:36
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No Worries Luv
w&m Rod Boucher 1973 Adelaide
“Sweetie, I reckon you’re alright,
I reckon you’re bonza, No Worries Luv.”
BaaDup Baaabadup babada babadup
No Worries Luv. No Worries Luv.
No Worries Luv. You’re real OK. Ahh!
“The Australian male is a strong, virile, rugged, handsome
individual. The Australian female on the other hand is
warm and passionate and generous and friendly.
But, the Australian male is shy.” Ahh!
“So I thought I’d write a Great Australian love song
for the Australian bloke to sing to his Australian blokesse.
Ready everybody?”
Sweetie, I reckon you’re alright
I reckon you’re bonza, No Worries Luv.
Darling, I reckon you’re t’riffic,
I reckon you’re spot on, No Worries Luv.
No Worries Luv. No Worries Luv.
No Worries Luv. You’re real OK.
BaaDup Baaabadup babada babadup Ahh!
“If you’re sitting next to someone you’re a little bit fond of,
just put your arm around them and . . . breathe all over them.”
Sweetie, I reckon you’re t’riffic,
I reckon you’re super beaut, No Worries Luv.
“Or you may prefer the traditional Australian approach.
Turn to the person next to you, punch them in the arm and say,”
Darling, I reckon you’re fantastic,
I reckon you’re super-terrific-ace, really nice,
fantastic-beat. No Worries Luv.
One! two! three! four!
No Worries Luv. No Worries Luv.
No Worries Luv. You’re real OK.
No Worries Luv. No Worries Luv.
No Worries Luv. You’re real OK.
No Worries Luv. No Worries Luv.
No Worries Luv. You’re real OK.
“No Worries Luv”
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6. |
Rag & Bone
03:38
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Rag & Bone
w&m Rod Boucher 1974 Adelaide
Rag & bone. Rag & bone.
Jimmy Collins was a funny faced kid
and he hung around the pub takin’ what they’d give.
He was the ugliest boy in a fam’ly of five
so to keep alive he left home.
Jimmy Collins hit the open road
and he tried to live by the country code
but he took to the city in the great depression
with a great recession in pride.
Bone, bone, rag & bone.
Any old bottles and tins around your home.
I don’t want sticks and stones . . . . just rag & bone.
Rag & bone. Rag & bone.
Jimmy Collins bought a beat up truck
from collecting bottles and soiled muck.
He set up a business and he made a life
selling cityside, secondhand.
Jimmy Collins would rattle and roll
down the Highbury Street by the Primary school,
and the kids would scream and whistle and shout
at the silly old goat with the bones.
Bone, bone, rag & bone.
Any old bottles and tins around your home.
I don’t want sticks and stones . . . . just rag & bone.
Rag & bone. Rag & bone.
Jimmy Collins at sixty-five
is neither dead nor neither alive.
He’s a solitary soul from a distant age
when a man worked hard for the money he made.
Now he won’t take the pension ‘cause he’s self-employed
and the only real trouble’s he gets annoyed
when the kids get rough and they kick his shins.
Does anybody care if an old man wins?
Put yourself in the old man’s skin.
Bone, bone, rag & bone.
Any old bottles and tins around your home.
I don’t want sticks and stones,
Bone, bone, rag & bone.
Any old bottles and tins around your home.
I don’t want sticks and stones . . . . just rag & bone.
Rag & bone. Rag & bone.
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7. |
Avinago
03:16
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Avinago
w&m Rod Boucher 2021 Aldinga Beach SA
INSTRUMENTAL
INSTRUMENTAL
INSTRUMENTAL Avin-a-go.
Avin-a-go.
Avin-a-go.
INSTRUMENTAL
INSTRUMENTAL
INSTRUMENTAL Avin-a-go.
Avin-a-go.
Avin-a-go.
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8. |
Bodzac’s Boogie
03:16
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Bodzac’s Boogie
w&m Rod Boucher 1972 Adelaide
Make it nice and simple, keep it good and clean,
round and round the weasel goes, what goes in between?
Take the lid off caref’ly, say what’s that inside?
It’s a bunyip on a buffalo, takin’ him for a ride.
Bodzac’s Boogie, Bodzac’s Boogie
Bodzac’s Boogie, Bodzac’s Boogie
Bodzac’s Boogie, Bodzac’s Boogie
Bodzac’s Boogie Woogie Blues.
Merry go round the daisy, people think we’re lazy,
if they only knew it then they’d sure to see we’re only crazy.
See you in the Spring ’n, Summer, Autumn too.
See you in the Winter when our toes’ll turn to blue.
Bodzac’s Boogie, Bodzac’s Boogie
Bodzac’s Boogie, Bodzac’s Boogie
Bodzac’s Boogie, Bodzac’s Boogie
Bodzac’s Boogie, Bodzac’s Boogie
Bodzac’s Boogie Woogie Blues.
INSTRUMENTAL vocal
INSTRUMENTAL guitar
Squash the black spider, squee
Kiss the red hen, pwat
Take the dog a’walkin’, here doggy
’n fetch him home again. home boy
Cockies in the kitchen, pretty cocky
Cats in the cream, meeow
If we sing another chorus, me me me
you’ll surely hear me scream. Aaaaahhh.
Bodzac’s Boogie, Bodzac’s Boogie
Bodzac’s Boogie, Bodzac’s Boogie
Bodzac’s Boogie, Bodzac’s Boogie
We’ve got the - Big Ben ring a ding ding
Red hen buck buck buckaw
Band aid kiss it better
Lemonade glug glug
Hit me ouch
Home free coming ready or not
We’ve got the - outback, that’s a fact, Bodzac’s Boogie Woogie Blues.
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9. |
True Blue Chicks
03:32
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True Blue Chicks
w&m Rod Boucher 2021 Adelaide
(with Vicki Dunn, Vivi Boucher, Ruth Bettany)
Our honeys, our babies, our darlings, our sweeties,
our wives and our lovers, our
True Blue Chicks. True Blue Chicks.
Dancing and laughing together.
Chatting and snacking whenever they can.
Drinking and lifting for better or worse
and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting
and waiting and waiting and waiting.
Our honeys, our babies, our darlings, our sweeties,
our wives and our lovers, our
True Blue Chicks. True Blue Chicks.
Children and Grandies, we made ‘em.
Troubles, successes, we played ‘em.
Hoping and dreaming we’d all see it through,
you loving me and me loving you. Oo oo oo.
Our honeys, our babies, our darlings, our sweeties,
our wives and our lovers, our
True Blue Chicks. True Blue Chicks.
INSTRUMENTAL guitar --- drums
Our honeys, our babies, our darlings, our sweeties,
our wives and our lovers, our
True Blue Chicks. True Blue Chicks.
For love and fun and patience,
for faith in us and for persistence.
Scrimping and saving and suffering over the years . . . .
“We salute you in tears.” --- drums
Our honeys, our babies, our darlings, our sweeties,
our wives and our lovers, our
True Blue Chicks. True Blue Chicks.
True Blue Chicks. True Blue Chicks.
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10. |
Gotta grow up
01:52
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Gotta grow up
w&m Rod Boucher 1973 Adelaide Australia
What you gonna do with your baby?
Don’t ask me, I dunno.
What your gonna do with your baby
now that she’s a big girl?
What you gonna do with your little man?
Don’t ask me, I dunno.
What your gonna do with your little man
now that he’s a big boy?
I tell you what we’re gonna do,
we’re gonna sit right down and sing it through, 1 2 3
Gotta grow up, gotta grow tall.
Gotta st-a-a-nd, gotta f-a-a-ll.
Gotta be what you’re gonna be.
That’s all, that’s all, that’s all.
Gotta grow up, gotta grow tall.
Gotta st-a-a-nd, gotta f-a-a-ll.
Gotta be what you’re gonna be.
That’s all, that’s all, that’s all.
Gotta grow up, gotta grow tall.
Gotta st-a-a-nd, gotta f-a-a-ll.
Gotta be what you’re gonna be.
That’s all, that’s all, that’s all,
that’s all, that’s all, that’s all, that’s a-a-a-a-all.
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11. |
Fair Dinkum
03:02
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Fair Dinkum
w&m Rod Boucher 2020 Aldinga Beach Australia
RIFF
Fair Dinkum - we are who you see before you.
Fair Dinkum - human beings, being human.
Pinch us, we will squeal.
Love us, we still feel about
the way we might be real and helpful.
Fair Dinkum - take us as you say you find us.
Fair Dinkum - make a measure of the ones who
try to do their best,
need to be of use and
seek to understand the whys and wherefores.
Fair Go!
Fair Go!
All we want to be is there whenever needed,
trustworthy and meaning more than ever to be true.
RIFF
Fair Dinkum - piano
Fair Dinkum - piano
guitar
Fair Dinkum - positively adorable.
Fair Dinkum - tell us if you’ve heard all this
before, and if so when?
But here we go again
expecting everyone to comprehend a
Fair Go!
Fair Go!
All we want to be is there whenever needed,
trustworthy and meaning more than ever to be true.
RIFF
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12. |
Talk about the times
03:25
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Talk about the times
words & music Rod Boucher 1970 Adelaide SA
INSTRUMENTAL 1 in F
bass & drums take alternate leads
percussive fun bass & drums
INSTRUMENTAL 2 in G
guitar & keys take alternate leads
percussive fun guitar & keys
Talk about the times we had before us
talk about the fun and foolish days.
Old folks’ dreams are born in hazy sunshine
wonder if the time will come again?
When we grow old, will we go cold?
Reminisce on a stolen kiss,
Bubbling in a lover’s bliss.
Kick off your shoes, no time to lose.
Wrapping warm against the frost,
Telling tales we never lost,
INSTRUMENTAL all percussive fun
Talk about the times we had before us
“cos someday maybe we’ll be the same,
‘cos today we seem to be the same,
‘cos today we really are the sa--a--me.
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13. |
Fortunate Fella
04:15
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Fortunate Fella
w Rod Boucher m Valdis Adamsons & Rod Boucher 1971 Adelaide
I was born a Fortunate Fella
‘cause I was born with a sunshine sky.
I was raised from the rain and the wind boys,
never really knowin’ a trouble and a pain.
I have lived as a Fortunate Fella,
boy, this world’s been good to me.
Every little have is a comin’ on easy
I’ve been given every opportunity.
And if I die a Fortunate Fella,
I will have been nothing more.
My time of three score years an’a ten boys
wouldn’t stir the heart of any one I adore.
And so I’ll die a Fortunate Fella,
right now before I live another day.
I will crave a life, I’ll crave a life of hardship,
of pain and toil, all work no play.
INSTRUMENTAL guitar
You’ll hear me shout, in a voice of thunder,
you’ll feel me scream like I wanna wanna die,
you’ll know this boy is a comin’ to get you -
Mister Fortunate Fella, I’m at your side------.
I’ll shake your soul from a sin and a sickness,
I’ll blow your mind of your, “No, no, no.”
Mister Fortunate Fella, when you feel the trouble,
I’ll kick you hard but I’ll still be near.
Then this old world will know my terror,
I’ll drive the cobwebs from the doors.
I’ll sweep the streets of a damp and a musty.
This Fortunate Fella will die no more.
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Bye Bye Morris/Tintinara Blues
w Rod Boucher m Valdis Adamsons Rod Boucher 1972
This is the story of our mean ole Morris Van,
caused us so much trouble and pain.
But now we’ve got a new machine,
it’s called a mighty fine Ford Transit vehicle.
We bought ourselves a brand new Transit van.
Transit Van to travel across the land.
Travel across the land in our Transit Van.
Go, go baby, go in our Ford machine.
Go, go baby, go in our Ford machine.
Go, go baby ‘cause you know it’s a “Going Thing”.
Bye bye Morris, bye bye Morris bye bye.
Bye bye Morris, bye bye Morris bye bye.
Bye bye Morris, off to your grave on high.
INSTRUMENTAL guitar
Go, go baby, go in our Ford machine.
Go, go baby, go in our Ford machine.
Go, go baby ‘cause you know it’s a “Going Thing”.
INSTRUMENTAL pian
Bye bye Morris, bye bye Morris bye bye.
Bye bye Morris, bye bye Morris bye bye.
Bye bye Morris, off to your grave on high.
drum roll into blues rhythm
Took it down to Tintinara loaded like it shouldn’t oughta.
Sick and tired, we nearly cried, blew the bottom from inside.
Morris! What have you done?
Kept us from playin’ by too much delayin’.
Finally turned out, too much payin’.
INSTRUMENTAL blues guitar
Gone broke, up in smoke.
Money gone, too long.
Five days, no pay.
Telephone, we wanna go home.
INSTRUMENTAL guitar then band
rock rhythm faster >>> original speed
Ray’s car blew the same, towed it to the parking lane.
Pulled it down, built it up, price is rising, bring it back.
Morris! What have you done?
Train ride home again, pay the money, pay the man.
Poor ole Morris, never be the same again.
INSTRUMENTAL guitar
Gone broke, up in smoke.
Money gone, too long.
Five days, no pay.
Telephone, we wanna go ho - - - o - - - me.
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15. |
Yoohoo
03:22
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Yoohoo
w&m Rod Boucher 1973 Adelaide SA
Yoohoo Yoohoo Yoohoo
Well we were sitting around last Saturday night
and we didn’t know what to do.
I was talkin’ to my wife and she said, “Rodney,
it’s plainer to me than you.
What we need is a little bit of home grown,
good old, Aussie, rock’n’Roll.”
So we phoned up the friends and we had ‘em around
and we made that neighbourhood go.
We did Good old, good old Aussie dance and sing.
Yoohoo Yoohoo Yoohoo
So we turned off the television, turned off the radio
and the records too,
we took out the guitars, and we took out the drums
and the old piano tunes
and we did what you call a little home grown
good old Aussie dance and sing.
Every body jumped, everybody danced, everybody sang along.
We did Good old, good old Aussie dance and sing.
Yoohoo Yoohoo Yoohoo
Yoohoo Yoohoo Yoohoo
So, come on over to our place people if you find
you’ve got nothing to do.
Take out your guitars and your dancing shoes,
we’re gonna go the whole night through.
And even if the copper comes a knockin’ at the door,
to tell us to quit the din,
we’ll say, “Shake up the rest of the boys in the band,
you’re all invited in.
We did Good old, good old Aussie dance and sing.
Yoohoo Yoohoo Yoohoo
Yoohoo Yoohoo Yoohoo
Yoohoo Yoohoo Yoohoo Yoohoo!
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Buffalo Drive Adelaide, Australia
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