Скачать или смотреть MacLeay Street and Red Rock Lane by Henry Lawson

I am now well on the way to an album of setting Henry to music, specifically his rebel songs. This one clearly drawing the class divide where he lived in Sydney during the end of this life.

Photos from various historical sources around Sydney. MacLeay Street is real, but not 'Red Rock Lane' it seems.

A few photos from this fascinating demolitions album from 1992:
https://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov...

Here is the poem, published in The Bulletin in Jan 1907:
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-637733713/...

There were a few mysteries for me:

Black Maria is a police van:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_van

And some remaining:
Who is Mrs Johnson and why is she raving?
What is the deal with being 'bareheaded'?
The verses about 'The Central' seem to be implying violent police responses to unrest, but compared doctors being sent for the wealth?

This song reminds me of Alistair Hulett's 'Suicide Town':
   • Suicide Town by Alistair Hulett (Cover)  

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https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Website (Lyrics and Chords):
https://www.folklounge.org/lyrics-and...