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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of 1965, The Kelly Songs (Bill Jackson - 2023), The Wayside Ballads Vol 3 (2021), The Wayside Ballads Vol 2 (2016), The Wayside Ballads Vol 1 (2015), Try / Somebody's Darlin' - (Single from 'The Wayside Ballads Vol 1' - Bill Jackson), Jerilderie (2011), The Nashville Session (2010), and 3 more.
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Try
03:20
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Verse 1
Gas hub in the Kimberley, dead whales in the Southern Seas
Blood on the Gaza strip, Refugees and one-up-man ship
Razor wire detention Indigi intervention
Baby seals, coral reefs, banning bombs and cigarettes
Verse 2
Children in custody, shame on my country
Oil spewing outa broken ships, lies spewing over leaders lips
The planets getting’ warmer we just keep on warrin’
And the Daily News has got us confused
Chorus
We’re drownin’ in lies, truth and surmise
‘Cause it all comes down to dollars and cents
And the ninety-nine percent who struggle for rent
They try, try, try, try and they try
Verse 3
Lost touch politicians makin’ piss poor decisions
Africa’s still got nothin’ to eat war rages in the desert heat
For the cost of one missile there’d be full bellies and wide smiles
And the Evening News is a dose of the blues
Chorus
We’re drownin’ in lies, truth and surmise
‘Cause it all comes down to dollars and cents
And the ninety-nine percent who struggle for rent
They try, try, try, try and they try
Verse
Sunami’s earth shakin’ gun laws forsaken
Species disappearing genetic engineering
We're being rorted by bankers, celebrity wankers
If I’m sounding confused it’s because I’m confused
Chorus
We’re drownin’ in lies, truth and surmise
‘Cause it all comes down to dollars and cents
And the ninety-nine percent who struggle for rent
They try, try, try, try and they try
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Somebody's Darlin'
03:57
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Verse 1
I’ve spent a life time watching out
Most things I couldn’t see
Spent my whole life trying
To be something and not me
It’s a simple revelation that I'm free to be myself
Than to be somebody’s darling
Trying to be somebody else
Verse 2
It's a sharp left at the back road
Down my lonely highway
Where I've squandered and wandered
Long nights and days
Looking at that misty rainbow
Wondering where it hides it's gold
Where your somebody's darlin', somebody's darlin'
And love ain't bought and sold
Verse 3
Pull back on this chestnut mare
Let her rest in a cloud of dust
We’re all cowboys in a playground
Shooting straight for love and for trust
If you'll only take a moment
To look inside my soul
Still trying to be somebody’s darling, somebody's darlin', somebody's darlin'
And that's the way I roll
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Bill Jackson Melbourne, Australia
'His songs are gritty and real and come at you like a hammer, ringin' in the mornin'. Take it or leave it, he's telling it
straight up' (Shane Howard)
' Take a chance and listen to some Roots Music that cuts across Borders...' (Keith Glass)
‘We heard Bill Jackson for the first time at the Unpaved Sessions earlier in the year and he’s up there with Paul Kelly’ (The Melbourne Folk Club)
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