Etown Live, Vol. 3

Oh, I said mama, he treats your daughter so mean
Oh, I said mama, he treats your daughter so mean
Well he's the meanest man I've ever seen

I said mama this man is lazy
Almost drives me crazy
Oh, mama he takes all my money
Oh, and makes me call him honey
Oh, I've stood all that I can stand
Say, what's the matter with this man

Oh, I said mama, he treats your daughter so mean
Oh, I said mama, he treats your daughter so mean
Well he's the meanest man I've ever seen

Hurt me now

Oh, I said mama, he treats your daughter so mean
Oh, I said mama, he treats your daughter so mean
Well he's the meanest man I've ever seen

Oh, I said mama I'm so disgusted
He just can't be trusted
Oh, mama he makes me squeeze him
Oh, don't longer my squeezes just don't please him
Oh, I've stood all that I can stand
Gonna pack my bags and leave this man

Oh, I said mama, he treats your daughter so mean
Oh, I said mama, he treats your daughter so mean
Well he's the meanest man I've ever seen

Lord, lord, now
Oh, I've got to find a good man
Oh, I said mama tired of this man of mine
Oh, got to find me a good man baby
Find me a good man now
Find me a good man baby
I've got to find me a good man, oh yes
I've got to find me a, oh, a good man now
I need a good man
One that's gonna treat me right
And oh, one that's gonna come home at night
I don't want a man that fuss and fights
Oh, I said mama, mama, he treats your daughter mean
Oh, I said mama, he treats you daughter so mean
Well he's the meanest man I've ever seen
Oh, lord, so mean

We were sitting round a dying fire
Somebody lit incense
Somebody lit a cigarette
And passed a bottle around
It was just strawberry season
Backbreaking pickers in the patches
Everythings burning down to ashes
And down to the ground
She's saving me
I don't even think she knows it
It's a strange way to show it as distant as
Last nights dream unravels
She's saving me
I'm a very lost soul
I was born with a hole in my heart
The size of my land locked travels

I try to put it aside
But it's too much bigger than me
There's a big brown hawk in the tree
Lighting and leaving
And there's tea leaves tossing
Heads up pennies in my pocket
Dead star like a rocket
The arc of my grieving
She's saving me
I don't even think she knows it
Its a strange way to show it
As distant as last nights dream unravels
She's saving me
I'm a very lost soul
I was born with a hole in my heart
The size of my land locked travels

The sky pours out biblical rain
Then days so still the beauty gives you pain
The heatwave kills the green
And she remains unseen
But colors up my dreams
With all things blooming

This is not all there is
It's not a kingdom
It's not an angry god
It feels like her
It feels like no fear
It feels like no doubt
It feels like inside out
The ashes stir
She's saving me
I don't even think she knows it
Such a strange way to show it as distant as
Last nights dream unravels
She's saving me
I'm a very lost soul
I was born with a hole in my heart
The size of my land locked travels

When Karl Marx was a boy
He took a hard look around
He saw people were starving all over the place
While others were painting the town
The public spirited boy
Became a public spirited man
So he worked very hard and he read everything
Until he came up with a plan

There'll be no exploitation
Of the worker or his kin
No discrimination 'cause of the color of your skin
No more private property
It would not be allowed
No one could rise too high
No one could sink too low
Or go under completely like some we all know

If Marx were living today
He'd be rolling around in his grave
And if I had him here in my mansion on the hill
I'd tell him a story t'would give his old heart a chill

It's something that happened to me
I'd say, Karl I recently stumbled
Into a new family
With two little children in school
Where all little children should be
I went to the orientation
All the young mommies were there
Karl, you never have seen such a glorious sight
As these beautiful women arrayed for the night
Just like countesses, empresses, movie stars and queens
And they'd come there with men much like me
Froggish men, unpleasant to see
Were you to kiss one, Karl
Nary a prince would there be

Oh Karl the world isn't fair
It isn't and never will be
They tried out your plan
It brought misery instead
If you'd seen how they worked it
You'd be glad you were dead
Just like I'm glad I'm living in the land of the free
Where the rich just get richer
And the poor you don't ever have to see
It would depress us, Karl
Because we care
That the world still isn't fair

Beds Are Burning
Midnight Oil

Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty five degrees

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share

The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
Let's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning
Four wheels scare the cockatoos
From Kintore East to Yuendemu
The western desert lives and breathes
In forty five degrees