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Snowy Flow

from Paradise : Lost by The Kellaways

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Australia in 2011 and barely a week passes without some sort of public airing of the issues facing the country’s great river systems. Did this problem just appear out of nowhere? Not in Kellaway land, it didn’t: this song expressed a rage that had been growing for 25 years by the time Paradise: Lost hit the CD burner. And has anything really been done about it? What madness is it that sees the inhabitants of the world’s driest continent willingly growing rice and cotton, when we live on the edge of bountiful Asia? We get one good wet year and out comes the heavy farm machinery to repeat the crazy process. Water: a sad comment on our collective brainpower, or lack thereof.

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SNOWY FLOW

How long since the Snowy flowed all the summer time
How long since the Snowy flowed through the summer time
How long must the Murray stop
In the sand dunes near Victor Harbour
How long must the Lachlan slow
To a trickle, up 'round Oxley

How long must the algae bloom in the Darling Downs
How long must the algae bloom in the Darling Downs
How long must the Murrumbidgee choke
On carp and boats and other scum
Don't mean to harp but it's about time
That something's done

The rivers run, into somebody else's pocket
The rivers run, through somebody else's cotton
The rivers run, and nobody needs a docket
Where rivers run

How long must the water spout from the Nullarbor
Artesian shame and waste lets the water pour
How long will the Murray cod
And the blackfish swim our streams
How long 'til the rivers run
Alone, in Koori dreams

The rivers run, into somebody else's pocket
The rivers run, through somebody else's cotton
The rivers run, and nobody needs a docket
The rivers run, into somebody else's pocket
The rivers run, and nobody wants to stop it
Where rivers run

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from Paradise : Lost, released September 1, 1999

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