Name: The Lady in the Locket
Duration: 3 min 29 s
Channel: Merv Webster
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The Lady in the Locket

Bush Balladeer

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Bush Balladeer

Australian Bush Poet and Balladeer

The particular style of music I enjoy playing is The Australian Bush Ballad pick and strum style championed by Slim Dusty and Stan Coster. The ballad style of lyrics shares the culture and the characters of my country. I am a member of the Australian Bush Balladeers. http://bushballadeers.com.au/bushpoet.htm I am also a bush Poet and a member of The Australian Bush Poets Association who define bush poetry as rhyming verse with regular metre and true rhyme about Australia, its people, places, things and way of life. http://www.abpa.org.au/

Song Info

Genre

Country • Traditional Country

Charts

Peak #379

Peak in subgenre #45

Author

Merv Webster

Rights

Merv Webster

Uploaded

April 04, 2008

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.2 MB • 128 kbps • 3:29

Story behind the song

Having lost my grandmother recently I thought of the grand old lady that she was and what a wonderful mother she had been.   I guess Mum's are like that.

Lyrics

THE LADY IN THE LOCKETT

From the cool of my verandah, on that morning in July                 
how the scream of hubby’s chainsaw brought a tear to my old eye.                
One by one the branches toppled from the Pepperina tree                   
where the lady in the locket ‘round my neck would play with me.

Oh her smile was so infectious and her laughter filled the air;
she would push me on the old rope swing that daddy had put there.
I would hide beneath it’s branches when we both played hide and seek; 
yes the lady in the locket who was gentle, kind and meek. 

Chorus

How I cherished all those precious years we shared both you and I
and the magic of those moments they still tend to make me cry.  
You were always there to guide me through the good times and the strife.
My  sweet lady in the locket.  Yes the mother in my life.

Through my teenage years you nurtured me and gave me sound advice
on the values of relationships and that was rather nice. 
When I married you were there for me and for my children too
and their love for that dear lady in the locket how it grew.

You’re house was always home to us and filled with warmth and love
and we know you’re in the book of life and known by God above.
But I miss you darling mother and you’ll always be to me
that sweet lady in the locket and a treasured memory. 

Chorus

How I cherished all those precious years we shared both you and I
and the magic of those moments they still tend to make me cry.  
You were always there to guide me through the good times and the strife.
My  sweet lady in the locket.  Yes the mother in my life.

© Bush Poet and Ballad Writer -Merv Webster