This week’s featured song:
Queensland isn’t the enemy. It’s the future.
Queensland
Category Archives: A Largely Fanciful History Of The Spiegeltent
Fantastic
Isn’t it good to be in Melbourne when October comes along? Look at the river, she’s so beautifully brown Now the city changes gears Sam Newman disappears and the Spiegeltent comes a-rollin’ into town I don’t believe in any mystic … Continue reading
The Reviver
Look at this funky space, it’s such a pretty place I wanna snap it up and wrap it in a carny embrace I wanna take the reins so we can use our brains And maybe shoot a little booty through … Continue reading
Come Around
I know how you feel, man You’re down to a crawl You feel like cashin’ in all your chips But this is the deal, man The world is a ball You got to cop the occasional eclipse The darkness is … Continue reading
Down To The Dregs
There used to be a python-charming diva By name of Leila Montesano-Jones She laughed and cried on cue With eyes of cobalt blue And the circus through her bones Leila left a lover and believer In ev’ry country fair and … Continue reading
Mister Sandman
Just because the bombs stopped falling Doesn’t mean it’s under control If you’re gonna call it peacetime Shouldn’t I be out of this hole? I can wear a smile with the best of them, keep abreast of them, I’m okay … Continue reading
Escape
They say at times the Earth’s inclined more sharply on its axis And that the moon controls our minds by how it wanes and waxes They say we’re all in helpless thrall to planetary forces that leave us locked into … Continue reading
Underneath
it might seem to you the heady taste of sin has wounded me has caved my spirit in but you can please yourself I might be indiscreet but when I squeeze myself I swear the juice is sweet it might … Continue reading
Swing
Johnny was a wonderful swimmer Then he caught a glimmer Of something he wanted more A medal of a different colour So Mister Weismuller Struck out for a distant shore. He went to Hollywood – so hard to succeed – … Continue reading
Show, Don’t Tell
When I was just a nipper in Mulhausen I found it hard to get to sleep at night A shepherd to a flock of fifty thousand For all the tales my mother would recite I know she had the very … Continue reading
Destination Anywhere
I was Belgium-born in a country town To a good strong farmin’ family And we work from dawn ‘til the sun goes down And we thank the Lord for our prosperity I know what to do when I find my … Continue reading