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!