Graphic design by Lea Walpole, Soggy Brolly, Queenstown, Tas. The cover art is an 1860s hand-coloured woodcut, credit to North Wind Picture Archives, Alamy.
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lyrics
I started out in Scotts Peak without any care,
I was feeling quite hopeful, because the weather was fair,
There was some mud on the track, so I trod here instead of there,
But very soon I realised that there was mud everywhere.
And when I finally made it to old Junction Creek,
I had mud in every pore, from my waist to my feet!
I still had some spirit, but it was getting quite weak,
So I lay myself down and I sang me to sleep.
I sang “Don't let the mud get you down.
Oh no, don't let the mud get you down!
I know that right now it's hard to believe,
But there are days in your future that will be mud free.”
So I continued on then to Camp Watershed,
And I was asking myself why I had gotten out of bed;
There were torrents of mud, some over my head!
So I just kept repeating what that other walker said.
He said, “Don't let the mud get you down.
Oh no, don't let the mud get you down!
You have to remember what's easily forgot,
That today might be muddy, but tomorrow might not.”
Well it turned out that the next day was muddy as well.
There were even folks surfing quite a decent mud swell!
A tripped on some cutting grass, and on my bottom I fell,
But my clothes were so muddy, that you couldn't even tell.
But I won't let the mud get me down.
Oh no, don't let the mud get you down!
I know that right now it's hard to believe,
But there are days in your future that will be mud free.
And by the time that I made it to Melaleuca Lagoon,
Something had shifted inside of me, I'd quite changed my tune,
We were swimming in the water, and I said “You know, we really oughtta
Go and see if we can find something muddier to do!”
And we won't let the mud get us down.
Oh no, don't let the mud get you down!
You have to remember what's easily forgot,
That today might be muddy, but tomorrow might not.
So don't let the mud get you down.
Oh no, don't let the mud get you down!
I know that right now it's hard to believe,
But there are days in your future that will be mud free.
I know that right now it's hard to believe,
But there are days in your future that will be mud free.
credits
from Bring the show back home,
released June 6, 2022
Written by Teri Young
Recorded by Al Future
Mixed and mastered by Isaac Barter
Lead vocals by Teri Young
Bushwalker vocals by Potto
Cittern guitar by Teri Young
Accordion by Randal Muir
Double bass by Hamish Stevenson
Clarinet by Danny Healy
Trombone by Joe Weller
Choir members are David 'Fitzy' Fitzpatrick, Lynda Purcell, Brooke Jones, Luke Plumb, Al Future and Hamish Stevenson
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