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