04 - Redgum - Beaumont Rag

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Description

Verity Truman: flute, tin whistle, vocals
John Schumann: guitar, lead vocals
Michael Atkinson: guitar, mandolin, electric guitar, piano, vocals
Chris Timms: violin, vocals
Produced by: Chris Gunn, Mark Boath, Redgum
Engineer: Mark Boath
Recorded at Lucky Larry's Lepertone Studios, South Australia


If You Don't Fight You Lose - Track listing

One More Boring night in Adelaide
Carrington Cabaret
Critique in G
Beaumont Rag
Peter the Cabby
H.M.A.S Australia
Raggin'
So Goodbye
Poor Ned
Killing Floor
Letter to B.J.
Servin' U.S.A

Lyrics
Beaumont Rag
I am a wealthy barrister
About 100 bucks a word
I've got a plum stuck in my mouth
I'm really such a
Really such a turd

I attended PAC
I meet a wife at the prefects' ball
I am the elder fotheringay
And she was apprentice,
She was apprentice whore

I passed my matriculation
Four Ds and a C
Daddy bought be a Mercedes Benz
And he bought me a law de'
Bought me a law degree

I voted for Mal Fraser
Was the decent thing to do
Was a vote against the communists
And I hope that you did,
Hope that you did too

I love to read the bulletin and watch the ABC
I love to wear by well-informed opinions constantly
All my friends are professionals from polite society
So come and sing the middle class Liberal
I've got a home in Beaumont Rag with me

I bought a brand new Range Rover
the outback is a lark
I slip it into four-wheel drive
At gates of national
gates of national park

Oh the working class are out of place
when they are on strike
I drive my Jag in circles
Trying to knock them off their,
knock them off their bikes

I love to read the bulletin and watch the ABC
I love to wear by well-informed opinions constantly
All my friends are professionals from polite society
So come and sing the middle class Liberal
I've got a home in Beaumont Rag with
Come and sing the middle class Liberal
I've got a home in Beaumont Rag with me