Mum’s front porch has a cracked concrete tile. The bank's on the phone with a cold, thin smile. Ninety grand shawrt by the end of the month, Aw we’re humpin’ our swags on the highway front. The rollin’ machine’s got a busted-up gheeah, And the grahss in the yahds is dyin' right heah. Jimmy's got the lejjah, Harry's shakin' his head, Anotha bad bet on a bed that we made. We’re out on a limb... Backed in a cawna... Oh, Frederickstown, you’re a cruel old town, When the bottom falls out and the debt comes down! We’re backed in a cawna, we’re out on a limb, With a half-cocked plan and a prair to slip-stream! Yeah, the mawtgage is buhnin’, the pressure is on, Till we bring in our brutha to right all the wrawngs! Entah Freddy through the screen daw, on another binge, Got a glint in his eye and a fringe that’s unhinged. Says, "Lads, you’re just sawft, you don't know the game, You gotta throw caw-tion right into the flime." We pile in the ute with a shovel and rope, Chasin' bad decisions on a slivah of hope, Pahst the granite outcrops and the silent gum trees, Wheah the wind from the ocean comes up with a freeze. Oh, Frederickstown, you’re a cruel old town, When the bottom falls out and the debt comes down! We’re backed in a cawna, we’re out on a limb, With a half-cocked plan and a prea to slip-stream! Yeah, the mawtgage is buhnin’, the pressure is on, Till we bring in our brutha to right all the wrawngs! Down in the valley wheah the shadows grow deep, Nobody’s wukkin’ and nobody sleeps. A family tied up in a knot of our debt, The kind of mistike that you nevah fugget. Freddy just grins as he loads up the boot There’s no tuhnin’ back faw the family root! Oh, Frederickstown, you’re a cruel old town, When the bottom falls out and the debt comes down! We’re backed in a cawna, we’re out on a limb, With a half-cocked plan and a prea to slip-stream! Yeah, the mawtgage is buhnin’, the pressure is on, Till we bring in our brutha to right all the wrawngs! Ninety grand. Thirty days. Just a couple of bruthas and a family trade. Down in Frederickstown... Don't let the engine die.
