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Graeme Humphresy here.
Oh lord. Where to start?
This is a dedication to the Australian Robert Burns, Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. Both Pete and I love his stuff, and he is well celebrated in the antipodes, however more in a ha ha gimmicky way these days. We thought he deserved serious consideration. All of the words are from one Paterson poem or another. Firstly just words from all over his stuff, then phrases, culminating in a fair lash at a whole verse from The Geebung Polo Club. Each poem from whence a word or phrase arises is given its own affect (left pan, echo, etc), thereby identifying its origin.

lyrics

Conversation.
The overflow.
A big white box.

He looked them through, pick on you, you’ll fall the harder, slight and thin.
Altercation, one round kid, that was me.

You should have heard the whipcord crack.
Tall shearers thunder by…
In vain fetch him back.

Only a pound and I’m standing here, selling this animal gain or loss.
Chickens, time, policemen, and space. Words to be said

By the old Compaspe river where the breezes shake the grass there’s a row of little gravestones where the stockmen never pass. For they bear a crude inscription saying stranger drop a tear. For the Cuff and Collar players and the Geebung boys lie here

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from The Overflow, released February 20, 2006
Humphreys/Keen/A.B. Paterson

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Humphreys & Keen Auckland

Graeme Humphreys & Peter Keen were the primary songwriting partnership of the critically acclaimed Able Tasmans, an NZ band in the Flying Nun stable that produced 4 albums & one EP.

Named from the A B Paterson character Clancy of the Overflow, the ideas are drawn from many sources; Australian outback poetry; magic realism; a train between Bologna & Firenze; & our dark little rainy island.
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