Andrew Crowden & Janet Crowden
Recorded and Produced by Pix Van Mason at Pix Records
Assistant producer David Crowden

Leon Tussie Drums, David Crowden Backing Vox, Pix van Mason Backing Vox, Andrew Crowden Vocals/Guitar


Coorong

She slid down to the water 
It wrapped around her hull
Silent and Still
Dusk finished the wrap
With a lullaby lap

Water sang
Baby slept
Sails hoisted and billowed
Slowly she crept
Through the reeds
Wind whispered with salty breeze

Coorong
Coorong
Dreams of past
Of didgerdoo
Wind, wind and sticks
Fires the crackle and ochre new
The Coorong it rings
Waves toss and they sing
The Coorong-
It rings

Ghost white sand- it looms
Darkness swallows light
Moonlit water paves the way
She creaks and ploughs all night
And still she slips
Through waves and time
Her buxom hips round and fine.

Coorong,
Coorong
Dreams of past
Of didgerdoo
Wind, wind and sticks
Fires the crackle and ochre new
The Coorong, Coorong, Coorong it rings
Waves toss and they sing
The Coorong-
It rings

Pelicans spread wings to fly
In salt-smitten ghostly sky
While on the shore
Black memories of middens
Alive
Galore
Sing and dance
Around her hull
Silent and still
Dusk finishes the wrap
With a lullaby lap

Coorong…
Coorong.

“Coorong” is designed to aide listeners to appreciate the astonishing beauty of the pristine coastline that shrouds the mouth of Murray River in South Australia. These wetlands cover some 140,500 ha of extraordinarily beautiful wilderness. 
Some of my own memories are celebrated as I recall the rocking of our little sailboat and the explorations of the lakes and wetlands of Alexandrina and Albert. These memories entwined with later memories where my husband and I sailed with our first child- who lay calmly and happily as we navigated our way through the Murray waters and combed the ‘ghost white sands’, discovering sacred middens that can still found. 


Coorong - Alphonso's Folk - from the album Coloured feet

Andrew Crowden & Janet Crowden
Recorded and Produced by Pix Van Mason at Pix Records
Assistant producer David Crowden

Leon Tussie Drums, David Crowden Backing Vox, Pix van Mason Backing Vox, Andrew Crowden Vocals/Guitar
Truth Shines through moments in Time.
Green flashed across the path of the closing sun
As it set in burnt orange and red 
threaded through clouds till it was done
And day drew to its end – 
and blue darkened till
The first star lit the night sky and with a sigh
 I sought to lie -my head to rest.
Dreams and thoughts -they danced through my mind here
Memories so near I could touch them
The southern aurora once danced before my eyes
where northern lights now flicker
They laughed and winked their way past me as
The snow fields sparkled and the dancers on ice
Pirouetting, pirouetting on point
The telephone line and grey matter connected me to time, time and place
And the world was magnified
 Curiously it shrunk.
Dreams and thoughts -they danced through my mind 
Memories so near I could touch them
The southern aurora once danced before my eyes
where northern lights now flicker
As I dream for the stars 
Communication is elastic
It provides a frame for one day
So truth shines
Through moments in time
Time and place
Of time, time and place
Dreams and thoughts -they danced through my mind 
Memories so near I could touch them
The southern aurora once danced before my eyes
Where northern lights now flicker
	Dreams and thoughts -they danced thru my mind 
Memories so near I could touch them
The southern aurora once danced before my eyes
where northern lights now flicker.
Time and place
Time and place
Time and place.

Truth Shines… life can be tumultuous. Recollections of people, times and places can sometimes seem so distant that one wonders if they were ever real-or whether in fact, it was all just a dream. But for me, the framing of one day, via the fleeting flash of the sun over the ocean, and the brilliant lights of the northern and southern aurora -serve to confirm my memories are real- no matter how long ago …hence these frames render time and ether to be elastic and through this, the truth of life does shine. NO matter who we are, nor where we are from, we are all ultimately, humans partaking of this world, co-existing in time and place and searching for truth.
 

