Silverton

from Noctuary Songs by Henry Hugo

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Silverton

Long hard jaw, sunbeaten face
Tracked by crow’s feet as he laughed
Curling fair hair and a passion for verse
Recited beneath a yellow mustache

Gordon’s verses were his favourites
And he’d shout them all along the road
The Silverton-Terowie coach he drove
Urging his horses with the poet’s words

-Let him talk and come aboard
His coach won’t stop till Silverton

He thought to start a paper in Silverton
He dreamed of training an emu for the Melbourne cup
“two things stand like stone
Kindness in other’s trouble, courage in your own”

He was a man of words a man of facts
He knew the outback like the palm of his hand
He knew Silver and He knew Gold
But even Broken Hill was for him “too small”
Now there’s not much left of Silverton
A few attractions and souvenir store
I’m gonna drive down to Silverton
And have a pot for Jim or maybe more

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from Noctuary Songs, released July 1, 2015
Composed by Henry Hugo
Written by Henry Hugo and Barbara Feldon
fragment “Two Things Stand like stone, kindness in other’s trouble, courage in your own” by Adam Lindsay Gordon.
Henry Hugo: vocals, lap Steel, acoustic and electric guitar, double bass, sounds, drum loop

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