Here is a version using a spot of Ai. I’m looking for a real muso to actually do a proper version but this can be a placeholder 😊….
Stop Press: This piece was recently voted joint 2023 Lyric of the Year by the Muse Songwriters group. This came after winning the November Lyric of the Month.
They call it Big River, eh?
It doesn’t look so big today
Logburn Road dances with the river
As it flows into the Grey
–
He said, we fight the dark and dust
In a mine we cannot always trust
The price of coal ain’t worth your soul
But your old man’s gotta earn a crust
–
CH
And down again, falls the West Coast rain
A sheet of tears, a veil of pain
A mirror glass on Logburn Road
Where only memories remain.
And I’m on the corner
Still waiting for you
–
That day was peaceful, up on top
Til a dull thump below, a muted pop
Birds took flight in startled fright
But the river didn’t stop
–
It may have been a tiny flame
There may be someone to blame
We know it doesn’t really matter
Cos the end was still the same
–
And down again, falls the West Coast rain
A sheet of tears, a veil of pain
A mirror glass on Logburn Road
Where only memories remain
And I’m on the corner
Still waiting for you
BR
Like the Edmund Fitzgerald crew
We have twenty nine missing too
My dad always said
The breath of Pike will strike us dead
It was kinda like he knew
-Break-
The old office radio propped on a chair
Played on to nobody there
When underground, time had stopped
How I wish you were here
–
And down again, falls the West Coast rain
A sheet of tears, a veil of pain
A mirror glass on Logburn Road
Where only memories remain
And I’m on the corner
Still waiting for you
And I’m still waiting for you
Copyright: Rod de Lisle.
fifty thousand words 