"Playing traditional acoustic
music
in and around Darwin Australia
for more than thirty years."
in and around Darwin Australia
for more than thirty years."
PO Box 41551
Casuarina Northern Territory Australia 0811
www.topendfolkclub.org
ABN 20 835 317 702
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Please Note - This is archived materialThis is an archive of the TEFC website last updated circa 2010. Links to external websites may no longer work or may link to pages differing in content to the original link. In many cases links to external websites have been disabled while the linking text remains unaltered. Email addresses and contact details on various archived pages may no longer be current. The current TEFC site can be visited at www.topendfolkclub.org Welcome to our new home:www.topendfolkclub.orgGreetings folkies, welcome to our website. Please use the links on the left to navigate, we hope that you enjoy your visit. Please feel free to get in touch with us: The Bard of NightcliffIt was the man from Nightcliff who came to Mary RiverTo give a presentation to an audience all aquiver For he'd culled his ancient archives for songs from near and far And some were not without their charm, but more were quite bizarre And he's summoned fine musicians to join his merry band From Alice, Perth and Humpty Doo, and far Van Diemens Land And he told them all what songs to sing and in which bloody key There was no room for dissention - there was no democracy At last the great day came and the audience gathered round To hear the bard of Nightcliff expansively expound Song followed song and on and on for hours and what seemed days And many folk were quite appalled and all were quite amazed At last the workshop ended and the audience clutched their heads Some to drown their sorrows and some to find their beds And some they took to whisky and some they took to beer All bitterly reflecting she'd be on again next year This Top End "Tusitala" - the teller of the tale This northern bloody laureate - the Nightcliff Nightingale So raise your glasses up on high to this rotund man of leisure A Territory Icon and a Nightcliff National Living Bloody Treasure DOCTOR PAUL STEWART! Patrick Somers |