A Mangaweka Road song – Sam Hunt
No place more I’d like to bring you than
this one-pub town
approached in low gear down
the gorges through the hills.
Now they’ve built the by-pass
the drinkers left are locals
& odd commercial travellers.
Quiet afternoons like this you hear the falls
On the Post Office corner
a blue flag floats. I bought
a hot meat pie at the store
a new harmonica.
A public bar drinker
tells me what I want to hear.
I play for him later
songs on my harmonica.
We know each other now
I buy my round of beers,
I catch up on the news
in small town public bars.
They ask me why I travel
& never settle down
I lost two games of pool
& hitchhike out of town.
I found these poems in an old poetry anthology from school. Unfortunately there isn't a reference for where they originally came from.
I think was "play" two games of pool and hitch-hike out of town......
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