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Scrub and Blackberry

Lyrics and Music by Paul Bond, 1981

Refrain. Here's to the home I've left so long Far in the back country Hidden in the rushes, the scrub and the blackberry Muddy paths and potholes Tractor tracks and postholes Mossy battens dangling there on the wire And the open fire. Six-inch nails and haybales Warratahs and sliprails Dogs and children yapping away in your ear And the air so clear, Refrain: Days of chipping thistles Curses and dog whistles Crutching in the yard with a flash of the shears As the evening nears, Talking round the table Loud guffaws and babble Families now split up and splintered like kindling wood But the life was good, Refrain:

Play this 1 K Midi tune.

Scrub and Blackberry on record

1982 Paul Bond Paths LP
1984 Phil Garland, Springtime In The Mountains cassette(Folk Album of the Year) .

Paul Bond

Paul is a schoolteacher in Motueka, near Nelson. He won the NZ folk Federation songwriting competion in 1981 with Scrub and Blackberry.

The lyrics of In My Little Whare, another of his buccolic rural songs, from his 1985 LP In Sight of the Mountain, is also on this website.