Corporate Country (My Chewing Gum Has 4 Wrappers) Gary Carter - modified 14/4/14 This song is about the executive City life and the contrast of Farm life Each alternate verse is City v. Country I wrote this song after being retrenched after 16 years in Banking and Finance and then spending many weeks on my mates Beef ranch on the Queensland border. The song was written on an iPhone of the trip back to Sydney from Pumpenbil, Northern NSW Looking for a piece of earth On the outskirts of the city Traffic jams, smog 'n KPI's Well they bore me f^%&ken silly Just to live in a wooden Yurt Looking for community Do you have a best friend at work ? Vote 5 to keep your salary Connecting with the salt of the earth Get back to the country Monthly reports, I made 'em up Performance reviews mean nothin' The butcher bird, the cockatoo The eagle flys magestic Bar charts, useless farts Make work of their duties Straining fences, diesel expenses Parramatta Grass, scratching you're arse Connecting with the salt of the earth Get back to the country Wake at five, do the corporate jive 1,000's of signs 'n parking cars Ploughing earth, watching cattle girth The price of a pound, you shout a round Teamwork, yeah ! What about me ? You threaten my opportunity ! Fireweed, stock to feed, Floods 'n drought are part of the creed Connecting with the salt of the earth Get back to the country 14 hour days, your health's at play You're being watched in a spreadsheet The scratches are deep, you rest in sleep Lantana doesn't listen You're just a stat, perhaps a door mat People are expenses Rev that saw, repair that gate The rain is always too darn late Connecting with the salt of the earth Get back to the country It's the corporate way, a brain a day My chewing gum has 4 wrappers! Well I'm over it now, it's just so foul Going to where the four winds howl Break your back, heart attack Lungs on fire, global warming is dire Break your back, nuclear attack Political crap, Income Tax Rather have one in the country Rather do it the country Breathe in the country Live & dieeeeeeeeeeeeeee i i i in the lucky country
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