Dark Side Of Newtown Lyrics - Dark Side - Backsliders

Piggy Roy was a sugar trader, living on the brink 

Couldn't make enough of it, dealing on King street 

It was a hard hard time, near the store that named a town 

It was a hard hard time, on the dark side of Newtown 

On the dark side of Newtown 

Jessie she married Fred in April across from Newtown station 

They took the horse-drawn tram right up to the celebration 

Together nearly 40 years when Fred he departed 

Jessie dressed in widow's weeds round Newtown thereafter 

It was a hard hard time, near the store that named a town 

It was a hard hard time, on the bad side of Newtown 

On the bad side of Newtown 

Tommy died in the infirmary, he was buried by a tree 

Near the track of the Eora, in a grave that can't be seen 

There's paupers in a graveyard, on the city surround 

You know poverty is spreading, there's an epidemic in Newtown 

Chop a load 'baker's wood', with a felling axe, 

load it on a donkey dray, with a pile of knickknacks 

Make a pound note bet at a dishlicker meet 

Watch the coat-tugger lose if its a dead-heat 

Chorus 

It was a hard hard time, near the store that named a town 

It was a hard hard time, on the bad side of Newtown 

On the bad side of Newtown 

On the bad side of Newtown