ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Took a bit of looking but I found it, sorry about the capitals but that's how I used to type, I think I was trying to write it as a song ?


DADS ADVICE

NOW COME ON LET ME TELL YOU
WHAT MY FATHER SAID TO ME
WHEN I WAS JUST A YOUNG LAD
RIGHT FROM THE AGE OF THREE.

MY DAD WAS JUST A WORKING MAN
NEVER ONE TO BOAST OR SKITE
BUT HIS SIMPLE WORDS OF WISDOM
HELPED TO MAKE LIVES TROUBLES LIGHT

HE SAID

ALWAYS BE AN EDDIE NOT A NED
YES ALWAYS BE AN EDDIE NOT A NED
ALWAYS BE AN EDDIE
THAT’S WHAT MY FATHER SAID
JUST ALWAYS BE AN EDDIE NOT A NED.

NOW WHEN I SHARE THESE WORDS OF WISDOM
FRIENDS LOOK AT ME LIKE I ‘M A TWIT
AN EXPLANATIONS WHAT THEY NEED
TO MAKE SOME SENSE OF IT

SO I TELL THEM LIKE MY FATHER DID
WHEN HE EXPLAINED TO ME
HOW DIFFERENT THEIR LIFE BECOMES
WHEN AN EDDIE THEY CAN BE.

CAUSE EDDIE GOES OUT FISHING
TO A SECRET SPOT HE FOUND
HE CATCHES ALL THAT HE CAN EAT
AND SHARES THE REST AROUND

NOW AS EDDIE TELLS HIS STORY
AT THE PUB A BEER TO SHARE
NED LISTENS QUIETLY ON THE SIDE
HIS SECRET SPOT TO SNARE

THEN NED HEADS OUT THERE STRAIGHT AWAY
THIS BOUNTY FOR TO REAP
BUT THE TIDE AND WEATHER BOTH HAVE CHANGED
AND NOT A FISH IS HIS TO KEEP.

THE MEANING I WAS QUICK TO GRASP
AS I GREW UP THROUGH THE YEARS
AND I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MY OWN MAN
ALTHOUGH IT SOMETIMES BROUGHT ME TEARS

MAKE YOUR OWN DECISIONS
AND STAND BY WHAT YOU CHOSE
YOU WILL SURELY NOT ALWAYS BE RIGHT
AND SOMETIMES YOU MAY LOOSE

SO WHEN YOU REACH LIVES CROSS-ROADS
AND TROUBLE MEETS WITH STRIFE
JUST REMEMBER MY OLD FATHERS WORDS
AND LIVE A HAPPY LIFE

ALWAYS BE AN EDDIE NOT A NED
YES ALWAYS BE AN EDDIE NOT A NED
ALWAYS BE AN EDDIE
THAT’S WHAT MY FATHER SAID
JUST ALWAYS BE AN EDDIE NOT A NED.

BOB PACEY (C)
10/03/01

and here I was thinking it was a Horse poem

Only if ya lookin at the rear end Mausie.


Bob