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Comedy, Rock, indie, indie rock, cabaret, Cabaret Rock, Melbourne, - Scrag Fight On Swanston Street

from The Last Gig In Melbourne by Geraldine Quinn

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Produced by Geraldine Quinn

Recorded by Marcello Lo Ricco at LSS Productions 2015/2016
Mixed/Mastered by Simon Moro at ninety nine 100

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Scrag Fight On Swanston Street

On the corner
Something is about to go much “wronger”
Than it was an hour or so ago

Suzie
Has Rachel by the hair; calls her a floozie
And kicks her in the derriere
Tempers are running high and cork heels are going flyin’
This is best fight we’ve seen so far in 1973

It started
In Flinders Lane, then the exchange
Departed
And rolled towards the railway station
Cardigans are ripped and bloodied; Rachel’s reputation’s muddied
Suzie slapped her young face hard and says:
“Stop flirtin’ with my sharpie!

You slut! You bitch! Bushpig! Take this!”
And the crowd shouts:
“FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!”

Hey you girls, better run and see
There’s gonna be a scrag fight on Swanston Street!

A rat’s tail
Is a very fine device for gripping
The scalp of someone you despise
So Rachel gets Suze in a choke hold
Says “Now who’s a slut, you fat mole!”
While the guy they are fighting over
Fucks off with some Broadmeadows scrubber

The slut! The bitch! Bushpig! Take this!”
And we all shout:
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

Hey you girls, better run and see
There’s gonna be a scrag fight on Swanston Street!

credits

from The Last Gig In Melbourne, released December 11, 2016
Sonja Horbelt - Drums
Ashley Smith - Bass
Martin Lubran - Sparklecaster
Mark Jones & Michelle Brasier - Backing vocals
Nicholas Quinn - Fender Strat (1973)
Geraldine Quinn - Lead and backing vocals

© 2011, 2016 GERALDINE QUINN
WWW.GERALDINEQUINN.COM
WORDS & MUSIC GERALDINE QUINN © 2011

Album artwork by Stacy Gougoulis
'Geraldine Quinn' logo by Barney Sullivan (Seeing Things)

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Geraldine Quinn Melbourne, Australia

Geraldine Quinn is a multi-award-winning writer-actor-songwriter-rock cabaretiér. She's been nominated for 26 Green Room Awards (winning 6), 3 Melbourne Comedy Festival Golden Gibbo Awards (winning in 2011), Best Cabaret in Adelaide Fringe (2013), 2 NZ Fringe Awards (2014) and was nominated for Most Outstanding Show in MICF 2022.

She's healthily enamoured of David Bowie & not at all obsessed.
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