Lyrics Bradman - Paul Kelly
Sydney,
1926,
this
is
the
story
of
a
man
Just
a
kid
in
from
the
sticks,
just
a
kid
with
a
plan
St
George
took
a
gamble,
played
him
in
first
grade
Pretty
soon
that
young
man
showed
them
how
to
flash
the
blade
And
at
the
age
of
nineteen
he
was
playing
for
the
State
From
Adelaide
to
Brisbane,
the
runs
did
not
abate
He
hit
'em
hard,
he
hit
'em
straight
He
was
more
than
just
a
batsman
He
was
something
like
a
tide
He
was
more
than
just
one
man
He
could
take
on
any
side
They
always
came
for
Bradman
'cause
fortune
used
to
hide
in
the
palm
of
his
hand
A
team
came
out
from
England
Wally
Hammond
wore
his
felt
hat
like
a
chief
All
through
the
summer
of
'28,
'29
they
gave
the
greencaps
no
relief
Some
reputations
came
to
grief
They
say
the
darkest
hour
is
right
before
the
dawn
And
in
the
hour
of
greatest
slaughter
the
great
avenger
is
being
born
But
who
then
could
have
seen
the
shape
of
things
to
come
In
Bradman's
first
test
he
went
for
eighteen
and
for
one
They
dropped
him
like
a
gun
Now
big
Maurice
Tate
was
the
trickiest
of
them
all
And
a
man
with
a
wisecracking
habit
But
there's
one
crack
that
won't
stop
ringing
in
his
ears
"Hey
Whitey,
that's
my
rabbit"
Bradman
never
forgot
it
He
was
more
than
just
a
batsman
He
was
something
like
a
tide
He
was
more
than
just
one
man
He
could
take
on
any
side
They
always
came
for
Bradman
'cause
fortune
used
to
hide
in
the
palm
of
his
hand
England,
1930
...
and
the
seed
burst
into
flower
All
of
Jackson's
grace
failed
him,
it
was
Bradman
was
the
power
He
murdered
them
in
Yorkshire,
he
danced
for
them
in
Kent
He
laughed
at
them
in
Leicestershire,
Leeds
was
an
event
Three
hundred
runs
he
took
and
rewrote
all
the
books
That
really
knocked
those
gents
The
critics
could
not
comprehend
this
nonchalant
phenomenon
"Why
this
man
is
a
machine,"
they
said.
"Even
his
friends
say
he
isn't
human"
Even
friends
have
to
cut
something.
He
was
more
than
just
a
batsman
He
was
something
like
a
tide
He
was
more
than
just
one
man
He
was
half
the
side
Fathers
used
to
take
their
sons
'cause
fortune
used
to
hide
in
the
palm
of
his
hand,
in
the
palms
of
his
hands.
Summer,
1932
...
and
Captain
Douglas
had
a
plan
When
Larwood
bowled
to
Bradman
it
was
more
than
man
to
man
And
staid
Adelaide
nearly
boiled
over
as
rage
ruled
over
sense
When
Bert
Oldfield
hit
the
ground
they
nearly
jumped
the
fence
Now
Bill
Woodfill
was
as
fine
a
man
as
ever
went
to
wicket
And
the
bruises
on
his
body
that
day
showed
that
he
could
stick
it
But
to
this
day
he's
still
quoted
and
only
he
could
wear
it
"There's
two
teams
out
there
today
and
only
one
of
them's
playing
cricket."
He
was
longer
than
a
memory,
and
bigger
than
a
town
He
feet
they
used
to
sparkle
and
he
always
kept
them
on
the
ground
Fathers
took
their
sons
who
never
lost
the
sound
of
the
roar
of
the
grandstand.
Now
shadows
they
grow
longer
and
there's
so
much
more
yet
to
be
told
But
we're
not
getting
any
younger,
so
let
the
part
tell
the
whole
Now
the
players
all
wear
colours,
the
circus
is
in
town
I
can
no
longer
go
down
there,
down
to
that
sacred
ground
He
was
more
than
just
a
batsman
He
was
something
like
a
tide
He
was
more
than
just
one
man
He
was
half
the
bloody
any
side
Fathers
took
their
sons
'cause
fortune
used
to
hide
in
the
palm
of
his
hand

1 Adelaide
2 Your Little Sister (Is A Big Girl Now)
3 After the Show
4 Young Lovers
5 Anastasia Changes Her Mind
6 You're 39, You're Beautiful And You're Mine
7 Be Careful What You Pray For
8 Your Loving Is on My Mind
9 Beautiful Promise
10 Zoe
11 Before Too Long
12 Beggar On The Street Of Love
13 Behind the Bowler's Arm
14 Big Fine Girl
15 Blues for Skip
16 Bradman
17 (The) Cake and the Candle
18 Careless
19 Change Your Mind
20 Carlie Owen's Slide Guitar
21 Cities Of Texas
22 Coma
23 Cradle of Love
24 Deeper Water
25 Desdemona
26 Difficult Women
27 Don't Explain
28 Don't Harm the Messenger
29 Don't Stand so Close to the Window
30 Don’t Start Me Talking
31 Down To My Soul
32 Dumb Things
33 Emotional
34 Every Fucking City
35 Everybody Wants to Touch Me
36 Everything's Turning to White
37 The Foggy Fields Of France
38 Foggy Highway
39 Forty Miles to Saturday Night
40 Forty-Eight Angels
41 From Little Things Big Things Grow
42 From St Kilda To Kings Cross
43 Gathering Storm
44 God Told Me To
45 (The) Gift That Keeps on Giving
46 Glory Be to God
47 Going About My Father's Business
48 How to Make Gravy
49 I Can't Believe We Were Married
50 I Close My Eyes and Think of You
51 I Don't Know Anything Anymore
52 I Keep on Coming Back for More
53 I'd Rather Go Blind
54 If I Could Start Today Again
55 I Wasted Time
56 I Won't Be Your Dog
57 Jandamarra/Pigeon
58 Jump to Love
59 Just About to Break
60 King of Fools
61 Lately
62 Leaps and Bounds
63 Little Boy Don’t Lose Your Balls
64 Love Is the Law
65 Love Never Runs on Time
66 Luck
67 Maralinga (Rainy Land)
68 Meet Me In The Middle Of The Air
69 Midnight Rain
70 My Way Is to You
71 No You
72 Nothing but a Dream
73 The Oldest Story in the Book
74 One More Tune
75 Other People's Houses
76 Our Sunshine
77 Please Myself
78 Pretty Place
79 The Ballad Of Queenie And Rover
80 Rally Round The Drum
81 Randwick Bells
82 Saturday Night And Sunday Morning
83 Shane Warne
84 Smoke Under the Bridge
85 Somebody's Forgetting Somebody
86 Somewhere in the City
87 South of Germany
88 Standing In the Street of Early Sorrows
89 Stolen Apples
90 Stories of Me
91 Stupid Song
92 Summer Rain
93 Sweet Guy
94 Sydney from a 747
95 They Thought I Was Asleep
96 Thoughts in the Middle of the Night
97 To Her Door
98 Until Death Do Them Part
99 When I First Met Your Ma
100 Wintercoat
101 Won't You Come Around?
102 Would You Be My Friend
103 You Broke a Beautiful Thing
104 You Can Put Your Shoes Under My Bed
105 You Can't Take It with You
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