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Gulaga Dreaming

from jiguma dreaming by Neil Porter

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about

Part of my work involved long drives up and down the coast between Pambula Beach, where I live, and Wollongong, near Sydney - around five hours each way. I usually stayed in Batemans Bay on my way home, in a motel overlooking the Clyde River, then pass by Gulaga as I head back through Narooma. Gulaga is a place of great significance to the local aboriginal people (members of the Yuin tribe), and is considered to be the “mother mountain”, the source of life in their legends. Gulaga the mother – Najanuga (a smaller hill at her feet) and Barranguba (Montague Island out to sea) are her sons.

These long drives were a time of meditation of sorts, and a time when I wrote and reviewed songs – this song was written on the last trip I did in this job.

I wanted to write something more like my earlier songs – my recent posts have been a bit far away from what I really love: guitar, bass, drums and percussion behind three part harmonies".

It's about time away from home as a part of my job - staying in motels, and passing sites of great Aboriginal significance.

Song art from www.southcoast.com.au/dimbaloo/index.html

This song not only sums up my music, but also where I live and who I am.

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Gulaga Dreaming
© Neil Porter 5/2006

Another breakfast on the road
In my bower above Batemans Bay
Watching the river boats
Strain against the tide to get away

Who owns these hands?
Who owns the face behind the mirror?
Whose thoughts are these?
That drift around inside my head?

I try to see things differently
It seems the more you look
Sometimes the more you see
Small things say so much to me
Sometimes a different light
Can lead to better sight

Gulaga watches out to sea
The mother mountain sees me passing by
Najanuga at her feet
Barranguba playing in the ocean free

These Yuin lands
What history played out in my garden?
These stolen shores
These remnants of a dreamtime song

Can hardly wait to get back home
Too many hours on this lonely road
Too much time to think
Too much time to be out here on my own

These timeless days
These hours of hope and meditation
Your warm embrace
My old man’s hands, this ancient place

I try to see things differently
It seems the more you look
Sometimes the more you see
Small things say so much to me
Sometimes a different light
Can lead to better sight

Another breakfast on the road
In my bower above Batemans Bay
Watching the river boats
Strain against the tide to get away

Who owns these hands?
Who owns the face behind the mirror?
Whose thoughts are these?
That drift around inside my head?

Who owns these hands?
Who owns the face behind the mirror?
Whose thoughts are these?
That drift around inside my head?

credits

from jiguma dreaming, released July 7, 2007
Didge - Jason Gazda, all other instruments and vocals - Neil Porter

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