ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Can anyone help?

We (The WA Bush Poets) were at the ‘Have A Go Day’ yesterday (do you have that over your way?)
Anyway a woman asked us if we knew a poem she’d heard on Macca’s a couple of years ago. She thinks the name was ‘ The sound of rain on a corrugated roof’ or similar.

She wants the authors name and a copy of the poem – anyone ever heard of it?

Terry

G'day Terry, this is the closest I can come to it. I believe that Macca gave this one a bit of an 'airing'
A great song too ...

Hope this helps ...

Glenn Skuthorpe - Nothing Like Rain on an Old Tin Roof
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbqQZBta1nA

Thanks Manfred,I pass it on.

Cheers Terry

Probably unlikely Terry - but I did send some stuff in to Macca although never heard him read any of it on air but this was one of them

LIKE RAIN ON AN OLD TIN ROOF


Nothing like rain on an old tin roof to set your mind to thinking.
Nothing like anger and hurt and pain to set a bloke to drinking.
Nothing at all to whinge about if truth is what’s bestowing
the thoughts that rattle around in your head and set your thinking going.

Nothing on earth so beautiful as a newborn baby’s smile.
Nothing on earth as comforting as love if free of guile.
Nothing at all to whinge about if you’ve bread on your table
and health enough for you to work as long as you are able.

Nothing will sow the seeds of discontent except pure greed.
Nothing will squander hard earned cash like wants that you don’t need.
Nothing will clutter up your life and mind like base suspicion
and sometimes we clamber over all to follow our ambition.

Nothing like rain on an old tin roof to set your mind to thinking.
Nothing like searching in your soul to get random thoughts linking.
Nothing to fear ‘cept fear itself when searching for ultimate truth
for perhaps you’ll find leaks in your thoughts, as you do in an old tin roof.


Maureen Clifford © The Scribbly Bark Poet

Thanks Maureen,
I'd just about forgotten about this - but it could be?

Anyway thanks for replying.

Arrived home from Canberra last night - still recovering.

Cheers Terry

That's really nice Maureen. Has the lilt of a song to it.