Dougie Young - They Say It's A Crime
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Dougie Young was a singer and songwriter from South West Queensland. Young had a white father and a Gurnu mother.
Earlier in his life he worked as a stockman, during which he learnt the guitar and started writing songs. A riding accident later ended his working as a stockman. In 1963 or 64 Jeremy Beckett, an anthropologist made field recordings of Young, many of which were released in 1965 as an ep called Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards (Wattle). The title track has since been covered by Gary Shearston, Athol McCoy and Chad Morgan. He was recorded twice more, first in Walgett in 1969 and then in Sydney in 1979 (soon after a report of his death). Songs from these three recordings were released by AIATSIS in 1993 as The Songs of Dougie Young.
Great song.
2022 yeah the boys
Do you have the one about poppa kelly
Oi thanks Aussie anon
seconded
Can u post lyrics thanks
Eric Reeds hope this helps
Now they say it’s a crime drinking beer and wine
It will lead a good man astray
When it comes to grog I’m a fair dinkum hog
I guess I was born that way
But I’ll drink and roam till the cows come home
If it will get my poor heart ease
I don’t care who knows I work for my dough and I’ll spend it as I please
I was cutting a rug they threw me in the jug as the magistrate looked down
He said Youngie Doug you’re a wine loving mug and you’re a menace to this town
He said I’ll put you away in a cell you will stay until you learn some sense
Well he cursed and cried my dog gone hide it wasn’t worth 18pence
I spent the day in jail and they painted my bail when they opened the big iron doors
Then I shook my head as I sadly said I’ll never get drunk no more
Then I made a vow I’d give it up somehow but that ice drawled down the lane
I met a friend of mine who had a flagon of wine so we turned it on again
People in this town they just run me down they gave me a real bad name
They say I drink and fight well that’s quite alright because the other boys do the same
Now after I’m dead they’re gonna hang their heads and say I wasn’t such a bad guy
They’ll be feeling sad well I’m gonna get mad if they gather around my grave and cry
Now they say it’s a crime drinking beer and wine
It will lead a good man astray
When it comes to grog I’m a fair dinkum hog
I guess I was born that way
But I’ll drink and roam till the cows come home
If it will get my poor heart ease
I don’t care who knows I work for my dough and I’ll spend it as I please
My name is youngie Doug I’m gonna cut a rug until the day I die
See he's an unsung original - but too honest to be widely popular