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One of my strong childhood memories.

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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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from GOOD TIME AUSSIE ROCK, released April 17, 2023
w&m Rod Boucher 1974 Adelaide

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Buffalo Drive Adelaide, Australia

'Buffalo Drive' was a 6-piece national touring and recording rock band, whose music evolved from the rollicking folk of the 50s and early 60s via covers of 60s/70s pop hits to strong original songs with a feel-good, sing-along vibe including chart hit, 'Life's Been Good To Me”. 50 years on 5 original members have regrouped to relive and present the songs, the joy and the fun times! ... more

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