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Ward 8 at the Q.E., somewhere down Woodville
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A smoky grey Thursday - take out your sword
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Stewie was born, there was blood on the sheets
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The doctor was drunk and the sister was bored
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Home was a weatherboard housing trust unit
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A low cyclone fence and a sparse gravel drive
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Dad was a truckie from Adelaide to Melbourne
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Two trips a week just to keep them alive
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The first sentence for Stewie was going to school
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In prison-grey trousers he marched in the yard
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His mum shed a tear at his vaselined pushback
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Clutching a ruler, his name on a card
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"Step forward Stewart Bedson," the headmaster said
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It seemed like Stewie was always in strife
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"Step forward Stewart Bedson," the magistrate said
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"This time 10 years...next time, life"
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Grades 1 through 7 passed pretty quickly
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Detention and caning and one million lines
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Stewie could read just enough to get by
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Stewie could read all the shoplifting signs
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There was a bond for a biro and a fine for some fags
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Another kid's bike, leading up to a car
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Photographs, fingerprints, juvenile courthouse
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A year in McNally's for going too far
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"Step forward Stewart Bedson," the magistrate said
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Over pine-panelled wood leaned the face of the law
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"We think you're a threat to property and justice
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Three years up the creek, while we make sure"
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A robbery in violence for retaliation
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For beatings and bashings at the hands of the screws
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Time in and time out and time and again
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Is this what they mean by paying your dues?
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Some people had plenty while others had none
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For the same working week it seemed year after year
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Worked over by coppers for tipping the scales
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Life wasn't meant to be easy.
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"Step forward Stewart Bedson," the magistrate said
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Over pine-panelled wood leaned the face of the law
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"We think you're a threat to property and justice
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Three years up the creek, while we make sure"
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Ward 8 at the Q.E., somewhere down Woodville
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A smoky grey Thursday - take out your sword
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Stewie was born, there was blood on the sheets
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The doctor was drunk and the sister was bored...
I was only 19
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