Story Behind the Song
The HUnter Region and Newcastle are sleeping beauties waiting to be unearthed.
Lyrics
Newcastle Saturday Morning
Saturday morning, feeling good,
Take trip down to the foreshore
Saturday morning, work’s all done
Take a walk right round the foreshore.
Sky is blue it sees you thru’
To a small cafe
Glass or two of golden wine
And a café latte.
Saturday morning feeling good
Hunt a bargain in the city
Saturday evening strolling round
Golden lighted foreshore.
Take a glass or two of golden wine
In a small café
Take a walk on by the Customs House
Listen to music all day
Saturday morning feeling good
Take a trip into the city
Saturday evening lights are blue,
Ripplets on black water.
Cathedral bells ring peace and love,
Some couple’s happy day
Fountains fanfare Morton Figs,
Wish them on their way.
Golden glow, Prince Edward Park.
Flowerbeds, ocean blue
Lining the coast with cargo free
Brown black tankers queue.
Taking black gold out from her
To countries far away
Snorkelling in her seaside baths
Schools of fish they play.
Take stroll right past Nobby’s Beach
Right out to crashing breakers
Port Stephens’s vista sea white haze
Beckons come and visit her.
Brewery’s rockin’ world music
While Stockton ferry sachets
Amber ale is drinking smooth
Infectious rhythm, dancers.
Scratchley’s guns watch out to sea
Ward off lethal vessels
Stories told inside her walls
How merchant ships were crippled.
Hallowed halls of Grammar School
Weathered ancient sandstone
Steel once her heart on Kooragang
Liquid furnace blasting.
Tasman jewell shining bright
A sleeping beauty waiting
Finest wines in valley green
Hunter Valley gardens.
Lake Macquarie glistens white
Sailing smoothly over
Aqua gush from Swansea pours
Golden sandbar roars.
Take a walk on down old Beaumont Street
Taste many races’ fare
Kofta, Balkan, Irish stew
Sweet odour fills the air.
Saturday morning, feeling good,
Sail a yacht out on Macquarie
Saturday evening, work’s all done
Pitch-black evening starry.
Baby whale and mother too
Breach and play all day
Crowds of locals
Watch in awe
To see them on their way.
Honeysuckle markets gleam
Produce fresh and quaint
Every product under the sun
Displayed in vast array.
Wattagan state forest falls
Deep moist green walk gladed
Wringing heatwave find respite
In Wollombi pine shaded
Sunday morning feeling good
Take a drive into the valley
Vineyard hills roll calmly by
Stop dine view the galleries
Honeymoon on Grapeview hill
Still green view on peppers
Sculpture gardens, silks earth craft,
Great horses here are fettered.
Crimson Shiraz, cabernet,
Ruby merlot mellows,
Many cultures’ gardens beam,
Crystal fountains cellos.
Kieran Egan 2003
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