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View From A Wooden Chair

from View From A Wooden Chair by Jumping Fences

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lyrics

Young girls play hopscotch on a broken path
Ageing soot blackens old brick walls
Old car tyre leans at the corner
Stray dog barks at grim passer-by

Bicycles line up at the local store
Factories crumble behind rusting iron
Graffiti grows on the railway bridge
Worker in overalls walks on home

A derelict house slumps to one side
Poster peels on a bolted gate
Its faded but not forgotten
"An injury to one is an injury to all"

Car rattles along with broken exhaust
Clouds hurry past in the driving wind
"Is this all there is?" asks the passer-by
"No" said the worker
"Its just a view from a wooden chair"

credits

from View From A Wooden Chair, released June 28, 1996
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Words and music by Lachlan Hurse and Sue Monk

Sue Monk: guitar vocals, requinto, hand percussion
Lachlan Hurse: guitar, backing vocals
Bernardo Alvarez: congas, bongos, hand percussion
Mark Dunbar: flute
Ovidio Orellana: backing vocals

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Jumping Fences Brisbane, Australia

Jumping Fences is an enduring musical partnership between Sue Monk and Lachlan Hurse. Their original works contain imagery and styles that reveal both an incisive insight into Australian life and a long association with Latin American culture.

Performances feature Sue's rich voice, her rhythmic guitar technique and the colour of Lachlan's innovative bass style.
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