Name: Chapman River Rising
Duration: P00H02M08S
Description: A happy little track - with lots of alliteration and rhythmic pulse - about the ordinarily dry Chapman River filling up with water after winter rains.

Chapman River Rising

from On Blue Days - the demo tapes by Darcy Hay

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A happy little track - with lots of alliteration and rhythmic pulse - about the ordinarily dry Chapman River filling up with water after winter rains.

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Rippling, swelling,
Foaming, sliding,
Trickles splitting,
water widening,
Lapping, tapping,
sapping saplings,
bending eddies,
waters rising.
The fury of the flotsam
soon will be arriving.
Tangling trees
with bark and leaves,
‘till the Chapman’s flow
is subsiding.
Yabbies, guppies,
tadpoles, trapping
eggs in jars for homeward raising.
Children googling,
giggling, fishing
for mozzie larvae for their tadpoles, grazing.
Muddy thongs
soaking dogs,
on the carpet that
I’d spent hours razing
with shampoo
and scrubbing too,
‘till it was soft and new
as the baby blue horizon.
Surging seaward
purging driftwood
from dry banks, to the ocean
The sand resists,
for a little bit,
then two waters kiss
where the dunes had closed in.
An ancient fight,
two snakes collide,
then peace subsumes
their commotion.
And all is well,
as the waters swell,
down at my beloved River Chapman.

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from On Blue Days - the demo tapes, released July 9, 2021
Darcy Hay - lyrics, harmonica, vocals, guitar

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Darcy Hay Geraldton, Australia

Folk, country and blues singer-songwriter from the Midwest of Western Australia with a penchant for political and poetic lyricism, energetic guitar playing, authentic vocals and deft harmonica work

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