This is the story about a guy, who loses his girl to a person who promises that she is talented and capable of great things.  She buys the hope and takes the gamble. We don’t know how it ends for the girl but the guy is quite bitter that she has taken such a gamble with her life, and their relationship.

Bruce and Lindsay at the Wheatsheaf in Adelaide May 2019

Words of wisdom from the local pub’s barman following the sudden death of his closest friend (and best customer). He advises that his listeners don’t go looking for trouble.- Because he doesn’t want to lose any more customers.

Bruce and Lindsay at the Wheatsheaf in Adelaide May 2019

This is a song about the aftermath of a relationship, and the feelings one person has for white might have been.  Bruce and Lindsay at the Wheatsheaf in Adelaide May 2019.

A song about a gruesome murder in a small country town that frightens the locals terribly. There is the unspoken fear that the murderer may still walk among them. (May even be the singer of this song !)Lindsay and Bruce at the Wheatsheaf in Adelaide May 2 2019

This is a song that reminds us that everything starts with a dream. Maybe our “devices” are distracting us from developing our imagination. Bruce and Lindsay at the Wheatsheaf in Adelaide, May 2 2019

Bruce Callander and Lindsay Boyd at the Wheatsheaf Hotel in Adelaide August 2018 taking part in the Festival Of Original Music.

So count your pennies, and I’ll count mine,

Check your change and  bide your time,

You can’t feel the rain under the water.

Hey lonesome cowboy, wild man of dreams.
Crying out for freedom, busting at the seams

And with every new day, hope springs again.
Each time the dice rolls fresh fools rush in.

If you have the chance to choose, take the malt & barley blues, at least you have a chance of getting off it.