Tom Waits 1983 über diesen Song: When my wife heard that for the first time she said: Oh gee, you must have loved her very much. So I said: Wait a minute. This is not a love song. This is about a guy who can't get a drink! It's about a miserable old town in Australia that made the news when they shut down the only watering hole. We found an article about it in a newspaper when we were over there and hung on to it for a year. So I said: Ah, I 'm going to write something about that someday. and finally got around to it. That's a freedom bell upfront just trying to get a feel of a ghost town, tumbleweeds and that kind of thing. It's basically a folk song.
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A dry local grazier - a grazier is any farmer who runs livestock, the American equivalent is probably rancher
Jackaroo - a cowboy; Australian slang jackeroo, a young fellow
Overlander - Australian railway. The Overland commenced service in 1887, pioneering intercapital rail travel between Melbourne and Adelaide
Serviceton - a small town in Victoria
Vicrail - the government instrumentality in the state of Victoria in charge of railways
Bilgewater - filthy drainings. The bilge is the lowest part of a ship, and, as the rain or sea-water which trickles down to this part is hard to get at, it is apt to become foul and very offensive
Water hole, watering hole - slang, a bar or a tavern
Patterson - a native plant of Southern Europe. It appears that the plant was first introduced into Australia by John McArthur in 1843 to his Camden gardens where it was subsequently sold as a garden plant.The first record of this plant occurring as a weed in Australia was on a Mr Patterson's property at Albury NSW in 1880. In South Australia it is known as Salvation Jane whilst in the eastern states it is commonly called Patterson's Curse.
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