The Infinite's theme this year was Top 100 songs of 1967, the year the National Folk Festival started, and I wrote a parody of Penny Lane, called Budawang.
Keith Donnelly enthusiastically agreed to back me on guitar and we spent a bit of time finding out how clever the Beatles were by looking up the chords on my phone. When we got to the Marquee for the heat, by happy accident Peter Grayling and George Butrumlis were backstage and also keen to make mischief, so a rather good instant band got through to the final, and actually got to sing the song, which is a bit of a love song to the festival's main venue, in the Budawang!
A few people have asked for the words, so here they are, to the tune of Penny Lane. A one two three..
Budawang
(Infinite Song Contest 2016 finalist)
Nicole
Murray
Penny Lane was once a bar down by the
Budawang,
Where we would head to drink our
pleasure, you know
And all the people that come and go,
stop and say hello
On the corner is a busker with
accordion
The Morris dancers laugh at him behind
his back
And the busker doesn't make a zac, in
the pouring rain
Very strange
Budawang is in my ears and in my
eyes,
There beneath the blue Canberran
skies
I sit and lean right back.
In the Container is the Pride Choir for
an hour or so
And their supporters are all dancing
with the queens
With cups of coffee from the espresso
team
With their clean machine
Budawang is in my ears and in my
eyes
Coorong, Marquee, Carnival, Piazza
Meanwhile back
Behind a table in the middle of the
session bar
The volunteers are selling Guinness
from a tray
Surrounded by the violins that play
Through the night and day.
In Budawang we'd rather have another
Fagans song
We see the audience all waiting for a
sing
And then the Fiddle Rally rushes in,
from the pouring rain
Very strange
Budawang is in my ears and in my
eyes
With four-part harmony it flies, in
autumn
Meanwhile back in
Budawang is in my heart and in my
mind
There beneath the flags and sunny
skies
Budawang
(performed by Nicole Murray, Keith
Donnelly, Peter Grayling and George Butrumlis)
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