Stewie - Redgum

[00:00.00]Stewie -Redgum
[00:18.531]Ward eight at the QE
[00:20.430]Somewhere down Woodville
[00:21.930]A smoky Grey Thursday
[00:23.969]Take out your sword
[00:25.738]Stewie was born
[00:26.878]There was blood on the sheets
[00:29.448]Doctor was drunk
[00:30.378]And the sister was bored
[00:34.888]Home was a weatherboard housing trust unit
[00:38.56]A low cyclone fence
[00:39.456]And a sparse gravel drive
[00:42.125]Dad was a truckie from
[00:43.655]Adelaide to Melbourne
[00:45.533]Two trips a week just to keep them alive
[00:50.853]First sentence for Stewie
[00:52.742]Was going to school
[00:54.482]In prison Grey trousers
[00:56.81]He walked in the yard
[00:58.180]His mum shed a tear
[00:59.479]At his Vaselined push back
[01:01.968]Clutching a ruler his name on a card
[01:07.37]Step forward Stewart Bedson
[01:08.787]The head-master said
[01:10.727]It seemed like Stewie was always in strife
[01:13.946]Step forward Stewart Bedson
[01:15.965]The magistrate said
[01:18.15]This time ten years
[01:20.884]Next time life
[01:25.333]And grades one to seven passed pretty quickly
[01:28.643]Detention and caning and one million lines
[01:32.372]Stewie could write just enough to get by
[01:36.81]Stewie could read all the shoplifting signs
[01:41.150]There was a bond for a Biro
[01:43.00]And a fine for some fags
[01:45.109]Another kid's bike leading up to a car
[01:49.108]Photographs fingerprints
[01:50.708]Juvenile court-house
[01:52.467]A year in Mcnallys for going too far
[01:57.715]Step forward Stewart Bedson
[01:59.564]The magistrate said
[02:00.884]Over pine-panelled wood leaned
[02:03.83]The face of the law
[02:04.963]We think you're a threat to
[02:06.912]Property and justice
[02:08.762]Three years up the creek
[02:11.131]While we make sure
[02:30.590]A robbery with violence in retaliation
[02:34.199]For beatings and Bashings
[02:35.658]At the hands of the screws
[02:37.988]Time in and time out and time and again
[02:41.477]Is this what they meant by
[02:43.447]Paying your dues
[02:46.867]Some people had plenty
[02:48.357]While others had none
[02:50.436]For the same working week
[02:51.976]It seemed year after year
[02:53.815]Worked over by coppers for
[02:56.265]Tipping the scales
[02:58.195]Life wasn't meant to be easy
[03:03.274]Step forward Stewart Bedson
[03:05.183]The magistrate said
[03:06.643]Over pine-Panelled wood leaned
[03:08.633]The face of the law
[03:10.463]We think you're a threat
[03:12.223]To property and justice
[03:14.352]Three years up the creek
[03:16.632]While we make sure
[03:35.693]Ward eight at the QE
[03:37.982]Somewhere down Woodville
[03:39.752]A smoky Grey Thursday take out your sword
[03:43.380]Stewie was born
[03:44.439]There was blood on the sheets
[03:47.78]Doctor was drunk
[03:48.88]And the sister was bored