Words © Bill Scott
Music © Roger Ilott
When Bill wrote this, he sent it to his friend Roger Ilott to put a tune to it. I learned it from Roger's singing. It is printed in Bill's songbook Hey Rain! which Timberhead Music published in the U.S.
Some Aussie words worth knowing:
Stubbies – short cans of beer
Yabbies – crayfish
Plonk – cheap red wine ("Rough Red")
Tucker – food
Burleying – roughing-up (giving them a hard time)
Gordon – Spanish guitar
I remember the days when we used to go fishing
After the whiting around Skirmish Point
With a carton of stubbies, a bucket of yabbies
And worms that we dug from all over the joint
And a plastic container of plonk
Remember the morning old Charlie got blotto
And fell all around in a tangle of lines
He was singing his head off and whirling his sinker
But as he was having a wonderful time
He spilled me container of plonk
How he splashed it all round and some went into the bucket
And the yabbies all went on a beautiful spree
They drank me rough red and got full as old Charlie
And argued and sang and left nothing for me
Of me plastic container of plonk
We were baiting with yabbies all well marinated
And waving their claws as they went on their way
And the whiting got word of this marvelous tucker
And came in their thousands from all round the Bay
To indulge in some yabbies and plonk
When our creels were all full then we started off homeward
With a teetotal nephew to manage the car
Then the whiting all came to surface to thank us
For the taste thrill that came from me old plastic jar
Me plastic container of plonk
So don't talk to me about burleying whiting
Just take a tip from an old fisherman
Bring a little rough red and before you start fishing
Just tip a good slosh in the bait-holding can
From your plastic container of plonk
Plastic Container of Plonk is recorded on the album In Concert and is also in the songbook Hey Rain!