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| Bondi Beach, New South Wales, Australia ( Photo by Duncan Rawlinson) |
Bondi beach: a story and song
A song of a Yank surfer on a flight from Vietnam to Australia to survive big waves at a place Aborigines call "water over rocks"
A new recording by folk poetry band Mike Marcellino
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Mike - lyrics, vocal
Tomas Texino - guitar, drum, composition, production
Recorded in St. Augustine Florida, November 20, 2009
Bondi beach
by Mike Marcellino
by Mike Marcellino
From an old French
airfield,
Tan Son Nhat,
a khaki clad
Yank surfer
flew
four thousand miles
a mission of redemption
to New South Wales
into the water over rocks
the Aborigines
call
Bondi beach.
A mate’s long board
overhead,
dinged
water logged,
the Yank surfer
twisted
by ever strong winds
made his way
down
into the water over rocks
the Aborigines
call
Bondi beach.
Flat
on
his long board
arms
cutting
the surf,
the lone
silent rider
left in his wake, rice paddies
and triple canopy jungles,
kept head of rip currents
and deadly bull sharks
into the water over rocks
the Aborigines
call
Bondi beach.
For the seventh wave
he waited, the Yank
surfer
took off
all out
the twelve foot high
wave
crashed
over head,
sent the long board
flying
like an arrow,
driving him
deep
into the water over rocks
the Aborigines
call
Bondi beach.
Bondi beach, Copyright Mike Marcellino, 2008, 2009
