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This song was inspired by the cold August wind that cuts right through you when you stand on the edge of the Hunter River where it meets the sea at Newcastle

NEVER GO BACK
verse 1
she was young and pregnant and the town was too small
to hide from the jeers, stares and cat calls
so she rode on a train through the Hunter's dry fields
to that city of beaches, coal and hot steel

chorus
and she'll never go back there again
no she'll never go back there again

verse 2
well the thunder was rolling when that baby was born
in a tin shack in Stockton and the world was at war
and that babe needed clothing and food and what's more
a hessian sack hung where there once was a door

chorus
and she'll never go back there again
no she'll never go back there again

verse 3
now winter did catch her like a train in the night
and that baby took ill but she put up a fight
but when the August winds came well the battle was lost
and she buried that child 'neath a white wooden cross

chorus
and she'll never go back there again
no she'll never go back there again