Jamie Hutchings
Avalon Cassettes CD
(Laughing Outlaw 2011)
1. Invisible Coat
2. Slack Magic
3. Smoky Dawson
4. Ned Kelly Indoors
5. Man vs. Train
6. When It'll Blow
7. Gimme Failure
8. New Vagabond 04:31
9. Ways to Fall
10. Cicada Symphony
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lyrics
SMOKY DAWSON
Chained up and beaten with a lamp
By a father who fought with distinction
You could have let it turn you to ash
Ah but you wouldn’t now would you?
So you found yourself a Stetson hat
And though by your own admission
You were a small man actually
A giant you grew to be
And put an axe to your captivity
You left a ghost by the Yarra creek bed
Where your mother eternally rests her head
But you wouldn’t stay alone
No
Us dirtbags we don’t ask much
Just our little vanities and such
And something to call our own
Our own
When Herb tried his first cigarette
Well he very nearly coughed himself to
death
And from then on he was ‘Smoky’
To everybody
He became a hero on a palomino
And he could split an apple with a whip
And write songs on a golden guitar
About riding the range
Don’t it seem so strange how
Somebody can loom so large
Even having their own membership cards
And then just fade like anybody?
Yeah like anyone
It’s true about you I don’t know much
Maybe some footage in Tamworth once
Some faded pictures
A home movie
We’ll I’m glad to hear you fell for love
Way back in 1943
And you stuck to it eternally
I’ve put my kindness and my courage
to the test
Oh but I always or mostly come off
second best
Things are changing around here
No doubt you have seen
How we let our attics fill up with dust
A room can only remember so much
Before it just becomes somebody’s
It could be anyone’s
I see the clouds heavy with rain
On our hands the tired earths stain
Let’s have ourselves a Jamboree
credits
from Avalon Cassettes,
released April 15, 2011
Jamie Hutchings – vocal, acoustic and
electric guitar
Scott Hutchings – percussion
Reuben Wills – bass
Sophie Hutchings – piano
Jared Harrison – percussion