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Brown Rise & Kerosene Lyrics - Redgum Anthology 1976-1986 - Redgum

Julie did three years' trade school 

I served my apprenticeship time 

We made a modest living, but we were upstaged 

Because computers don't strike or need holidays 

Our parents ate bread and dripping 

Stole wood from the park to keep warm 

We're eating by the heater in threadbare jeans 

Brown rice and kerosene 

Life wasn't meant to be impossible 

Spare us the indignity 

Two cheers for progress, reason denied 

Whitewash and platitudes are all I can find 

Our parents ate bread and dripping 

Stole wood from the park to keep warm 

The cupboard's bare, all we can share's 

Brown rice and kerosene 

Sometimes I think about cocktails 

Update Molotov's recipe 

Forget the gravel ballast and stink of benzene 

Use rice and kerosene 

A major change of scene 

Like 1917 

With people before machines