PETER NORTHCOTE. PATTY

PATTY. From the ep SLOW LOVE.
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PATTY (The story of Patricia Northcote. My mum) 1930 - 2012.
Featuring:
Tahlia Cox - Young Patty
Alex Risby - Patty's Father
Petra Pridalova - Patty's Mother
Katia Van Hilten - Young Patty on train
Stephanie Van Hilten - Drunk Patty's Mum
Peter Northcote - The Priest
Marcus Holden - Fiddle
Bobby Poulton - Bass
Dave Ferry - Drums
Audience - c/o The Bridge Hotel in Rozelle
and Patty - as herself.

Filmed by Robb Cox (who is an all round nice guy and legend!)
December 2013

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LYRICS:
Won't you please come home Patty
Your garden awaits
With roses in bloom all so fair
We'll have tea by the tulips and maiden hair fern
But don't hurry patty
If you've found some love over there.

Born on st Patrick's day 1930
To a lassie and a gold digger Baird
Well he left her early and she married the drink
And patty was left to prepare

Before she hit teens she was taken away
To the nuns of perpetual care
They sheltered and fed, bet they sheltered her head
And young patty was left to prepare

At 18 with freedom she went on a journey to visit her mother's affairs
As she stepped from the train a priest called her name
You mother's been murdered in vain

When patty met Don he was all that she wanted
So handsome with bushy black hair
As his hair had greyed, for his cancer she prayed
And Patty was left to prepare.

with her 2 boys beside her she started again
The garden her real love affair
Then once more it hit her
and wheelchair bound is no glitter
and Patty was left to prepare

With pain as her master
And a bloody lords prayer
After 7 long years of despair
It finally did take her
And as she met her maker
We though she had never prepared

Her only wish for her funeral
Was to have millions of flowers, more flowers than anyone cared
And as we all said goodbye
With the flowers we cried
........
What a wonderful way to prepare

Won't you please come home Patty
Your garden awaits
With roses in bloom all so fair
We'll have tea by the tulips and maiden hair fern
But don't hurry patty
If you've found some love over there.
©Peter Northcote 2013