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The Battle of Pinjarra
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Acoustic guitar, dobro and cello, local history ballad
acoustic folk blues original traditional fingerstyle slide bottleneck lap slide
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Soulful original folk blues songs accompanied by crisp fingerstyle acoustic slide guitar
Craig Sinclair combines crisp fingerstyle slide guitar playing with soulful vocals and contemporary original folk-blues songwriting to craft a unique style that draws on many rich traditions, but in the end answers to itself.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #12
Peak in subgenre #3
Author
Craig Sinclair
Rights
Craig Sinclair 2006
Uploaded
June 29, 2008
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MP3 4.3 MB • 128 kbps • 4:41
Story behind the song
The story of the "Battle" of Pinjarra, in 1834 in Western Australia, which was actually a massacre of a village of local indigenous people by British settlers.
Lyrics
The Battle of Pinjarra Craig Sinclair (2005), released independently in 2006 History tells us of a battle, the white man’s year of 1834 Mounted gunmen rode to Pinjarra with pretense of settling a score To clear the way for farmers to profit by sewing their seeds They ripped the black man from his earth as if simply pulling weeds Pitched against an enemy with no chance to win A case of wrong place, wrong time and wrong coloured skin On an October morning guns were loaded, the battle line was drawn They fell upon their prey unjustified and unwarned Hemmed against the river, it cut off their chances of escape And the women and children there had to witness their men’s grisly fate And as the red sun set at the ending of the day The Murray river washed the blood of cold murdered blackfella away The soldiers returned to their homes greeted with praise and acclaim With blood on their hands and honour beside their name Genocide in the name of a governor this tribe had never hailed But you can get away with murder if you’re the one who lives to tell the tale A battle forever more as the history books do tell Though it was close to a fair fight as heaven is to hell
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