Stewie -Redgum
Ward eight at the QE
Somewhere down Woodville
A smoky Grey Thursday
Take out your sword
Stewie was born
There was blood on the sheets
Doctor was drunk
And the sister was bored
Home was a weatherboard housing trust unit
A low cyclone fence
And a sparse gravel drive
Dad was a truckie from
Adelaide to Melbourne
Two trips a week just to keep them alive
First sentence for Stewie
Was going to school
In prison Grey trousers
He walked in the yard
His mum shed a tear
At his Vaselined push back
Clutching a ruler his name on a card
Step forward Stewart Bedson
The head-master said
It seemed like Stewie was always in strife
Step forward Stewart Bedson
The magistrate said
This time ten years
Next time life
And grades one to seven passed pretty quickly
Detention and caning and one million lines
Stewie could write just enough to get by
Stewie could read all the shoplifting signs
There was a bond for a Biro
And a fine for some fags
Another kid's bike leading up to a car
Photographs fingerprints
Juvenile court-house
A year in Mcnallys for going too far
Step forward Stewart Bedson
The magistrate said
Over pine-panelled wood leaned
The face of the law
We think you're a threat to
Property and justice
Three years up the creek
While we make sure
A robbery with violence in retaliation
For beatings and Bashings
At the hands of the screws
Time in and time out and time and again
Is this what they meant by
Paying your dues
Some people had plenty
While others had none
For the same working week
It seemed year after year
Worked over by coppers for
Tipping the scales
Life wasn't meant to be easy
Step forward Stewart Bedson
The magistrate said
Over pine-Panelled wood leaned
The face of the law
We think you're a threat
To property and justice
Three years up the creek
While we make sure
Ward eight at the QE
Somewhere down Woodville
A smoky Grey Thursday take out your sword
Stewie was born
There was blood on the sheets
Doctor was drunk
And the sister was bored
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