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Heel and Toe

from Home by Fred Smith

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There’s no way to explain, all that goes down in this brain
Except to confess it’s a bit of a mess and you don’t want to know.
So I went for a walk if only to remove the cork
Let it all flow with the heel and toe, lets call it heal and toe
Heal, toe, wherever you may go, just get me out of here
In here’s tears and love and hope and fear, so here’s to us my dear
Made my way down Lonsdale Street, as if I had someone to meet
Heel and toe down that bitumen road just wandering alone
On every corner street café, there were cyclists on display
Facebooking likes for their NASA-built bikes on their new smart phones
Me I haven’t got that far I got a Nokia and a Malvern Star
Backpedal brakes and the mudguard shakes, through the rusty chrome
Sometimes it breaks down you know, leaving me to heal and toe
Heel and toe down the bitumen road to find my way back home
Home, home, I’m never going home, get me out of here
In here’s tears, and love and hope and fear, so here’s to us my dear
So I went travelling overseas to where they all speak Japanese
Polite and discrete as they shuffle their feet through the streets of Tokyo
I crossed the ocean and in New York pedestrians prefer to walk
Heal and toe through the old Soho where they drink Champaign and it tastes just like cherry
Home, home I’m never going home, I kind of like it here
So cheers beers, and bugger love and fear, and here’s to us my dear
One day I will settle down build a home near my home ground
Light a torch on the old back porch and sit there writing poems
If I get restless I will know to heal myself with heal and toe
Round the park till the day gets dark then find my way back home
Heal, toe, wherever you may go, you always lead me here
So here’s cheers to love and hope and fear, and here’s to us my dear.

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from Home, released August 30, 2020

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Fred Smith Canberra, Australia

“Fred Smith is simply the best folk/country musician working in this country in 2020. Beyond writing some of the finest songs about Australians at war, he has created a repertoire that is wry, literate, witty, powerfully emotional and insightful.”(Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald). ... more

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