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Gladstone Pier

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Peter was a sailor Swarthy lean and proud He could take a schooner through a big sea swell Aloof in the mainland crowd She loved his quiet laughter Like a boy he'd shrug and grin The beach stretched wide at Port Mackay With dreams upon the wind He wore her name in a rose tattoo Long weekends of gins and lime She lived in Cairns, made plans to move Checkout girl part-time And rumour said, "There's a boom ahead, You can make your future here By the Gladstone Pier" A two-roomed fibro shelter Empty hopes, the damp, the flies Prices hiked, her face grew tight And conversation died And the foreman at the smelter said "You're much too old Try the canefields furthers north" And the clerk at the market said "We don't buy trouble There's a strike down at the port" Then a six-day shift in a filthy pit The drag lines gouging coal The black dust gnaws at your lungs and pores And the anger rots your soul And the queue round the block waits for you to drop Can you take it for another year? By the Gladstone Pier Every Sunday he'd walk alone Casting pebbles at the passing waves Plunge in brine, cleanse his


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