Green Left TV: David Beniuk - January 26

February 3, 2013
Issue 
952
Culture
Video: David Beniuk: January 26 - why pick a day of tragedy? - YouTube/GreenLeftOnline.

This song was released on the 1988 EP "UnAustralian Folk Songs" by David Beniuk.

Lyrics by David Beniuk

If I said to you, "Let's celebrate
the fires that raged on Ash Wednesday"
You would turn to me and tell me I was mad,
to celebrate a tragic day.
So why pick a day of tragedy to celebrate.

If I said to you, "Let's celebrate
the day Cyclone Tracy leveled Darwin"
You would turn to me and thel me I was mad
to celebrate a tragic day.
So why pick a day of tragedy to celebrate?

If I said to you, "Let's celebrate
the anxiety of Port Arthur"
You would turn to me and thell me I was out of my mind
to celebrate a tragic day.
So why pick a day of tragedy to celebrate?
So why pick a day of tragedy to celebrate?

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