Adelaide

from All Sorts by CJ Shaw

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This story telling song follows the enchanting day which saw the arrival of my first child, Adelaide. The rain tumbled down in Canberra, soaking the city and filling the drains as we marvelled at the magic of being first time parents. As the song suggests the natural world that surrounded us, the animals and birds as well as the gardens and trees were reborn as the result of the 60mm that fell in just under an hour. This is a song that celebrates renewal and new life.

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In Canberra nothing’ll change
We went 200 days and never got a drop of rain
AIn’t nothing in the sky ‘cept the 18:18 to Dubai
via Sydney, over night

You’d ask the magpie, you’d hear the joey sigh
They know something’s about to change

Oh and Adelaide she brought the rain
Bucketing down all over town, filled up every drain
Oh and Adelaide she brought the rain
To quench the thirst of this dry earth
Help us grow again,
She’s going to help us grow again

People say “CJ, mate, that’s just climate change
Some ole’ storm cell lost on the Brindabella range”
Call me sceptic, but new life is all majestic
I’m just suggesting it was her big ole’ eyes that sowed the sky

You’d ask the bandicoot, you’d hear the owl as they hoot
They know something’s about to change

Oh and Adelaide she brought the rain
Bucketing down all over town, filled up every drain
Oh and Adelaide she brought the rain
To quench the thirst of this dry earth
Help us grow again,
She’s going to help us grow again

Into water our daughter she was born
Pisces to the core, she let her wet lungs roar
And then the roar went out the door,
down the hall so it rained.
So I can sing it again and again

Oh that Adelaide she brought the rain
Bucketing down all over town, filled up every drain
Oh and Adelaide she brought the rain
To quench the thirst of this dry earth
Help us grow again,
She’s going to help us grow again x 2

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from All Sorts, released September 17, 2021

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CJ Shaw Canberra, Australia

CJ Shaw is an ARIA award nominated Canberra based musician who has spent over twenty years writing, recording and performing songs. Now working in the classroom, CJ continues to inspire and educate the next generation of musicians.

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