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Balance (2010)

$25 (includes postage in Australia)
Special offer: two or more of any item for $20 each

To order your copy, email Bruce with your request

Track list:

  1. Balance
  2. I’ll Love You Till the Cows Come Home (sample)
  3. The Rules of English
  4. The Struggle (sample)
  5. Wintering Over (sample)
  6. Lament for Pluto (sample)
  7. The Man and the Woman and the Edison Phonograph
    (featuring Ronnie Summers) Read the story behind this song.
  8. Australia ’s Lost Languages (sample)
    View a video of this song
  9. Murrumbidgee Morning (sample)
  10. Down at the Pool (sample)
  11. Lake Pedder Again (sample)
    Read about the campaign to restore Lake Pedder: www.lakepedder.org
  12. As Good as New (sample)
  13. How To Tune the Ukulele
  14. If You Can Walk You Can Dance, If You Can Talk You Can Sing (sample)

Booklet contains lyrics and chords of all songs

Bruce Watson writes excellent songs, on the side of the angels. He puts out CDs like Christmas cake, rich and nutritious, fruity in places, a bit nutty too, some bits sweet, some dark, attractive to everyone including children ... Bruce is a non-stop song-writer for all people, and all life, and brings them to life as great music on this CD.
Trad&Now

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It's absolutely fantastic - a brilliant album.
David Hosking
Radio 3MDR

Big congratulations on a beautiful sound and songs.  The song with Ronnie makes me cry.
Christina Mimmochi
Producer, 2010 National Folk Fellow

I love the harmonies, the sentiments expressed, the fabulously clever lyrics and humour, the humanity imbedded in so many songs.  Come to think of it I love them all. Congratulations! Thanks for again adding some wonderful songs to our lives.
Phil Melgaard, Performer

  
 

A Moving Feast (2004)

$25 (includes postage in Australia)
Special offer: two or more of any item for $20 each

To order your copy, email Bruce with your request

Track list:

  1. Smart Bombs, Dumb Politicians
  2. Unfinished Business
  3. My Pussy Cat Keeps Peeing on the Carpet
  4. I Am the Very Model of a Modern Foreign Minister
  5. Dad’s Clothes
  6. Elvis is Alive
  7. September 11
  8. The War Without a Name
  9. Sorry Song
  10. Road Train
  11. Lost Children of the Empire
  12. Vasectomy Song
  13. Nobody Should Have to Go Through This
  14. Landlubber's Shanty
  15. The Butterfly Effect

Booklet contains lyrics and chords of all songs

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We played it and played it and again ... love it. Best you have done.
David Long
Radio Adelaide 101.5 FM

Fanbloodytastic. This album is one of the most impressive that I've heard in ages, and I hear lots.
David Miller
Radio 3MDR

One of Australia’s finest contemporary songs (September 11)
Joe Dolce

  
 

Are We There Yet? (Children’s songs) (2004)

$25 (includes postage in Australia)
Special offer: two or more of any item for $20 each

To order your copy, email Bruce with your request

Track list:

  1. Are We There Yet?
  2. A Pig that Sings is a Happy Pig
  3. Food Food Food
  4. Spooks
  5. My Pussy Cat Keeps Peeing On the Carpet
  6. The Short Song
  7. Beaut Blue Ute
  8. I Wish that I Could Play the Didgeridoo
  9. Tomato Sauce
  10. The Pirate Song
  11. Toddler with Attitude
  12. Real World Lullaby
  13. Knock Knock
  14. Twinkles the Elephant
  15. Henry the Hippopotamus
  16. I Like Animals
  17. I’ve Got a Brand New Baby Brother
  18. The Slow Song
  19. Don’t Give Your Hat to the Hairy Nosed Wombat
  20. Mummy Says (You Can’t Do That)

Booklet contains lyrics and chords of all songs

 
 

Out My Window (1999)

$25 (includes postage in Australia)
Special offer: two or more of any item for $20 each

To order your copy, email Bruce with your request

Track list:

  1. The Man & the Woman & the Edison Phonograph
  2. Up in Qld in the Wet
  3. Toddler with Attitude
  4. The Old Bush Dance
  5. I Shared a Urinal with Martin Ferguson
  6. Another Day in a Small Town
  7. Outback Love Song
  8. Pirate Song
  9. Half a World Away
  10. Olegas
    View some of Olegas Trucanas' photos
  11. Hello to Chaos, Farewell to Freedom
  12. All Australian Boys Need a Head
  13. Twilight Café
  14. I Wish I Could Write Songs like Eric
  15. Out My Window

Booklet contains lyrics and chords of all songs

 

What a lovely album! Another Bruce Watson CD to add to my “play when I need to feel good about the world” pile.
Judy Small

 

 
 

Real World: Songs of Life, Love and Laughter (1994)

$25 (includes postage in Australia)
Special offer: two or more of any item for $20 each

To order your copy, email Bruce with your request

Track list:

  1. Amazon
  2. Accident of Birth
  3. Pretentious Song
  4. Isa
  5. Silent Conversations
  6. Prince Charles Royal Talking Blues
  7. Farewell Comrades
  8. Trenches
  9. My Best Friend
  10. Real World Lullaby
  11. Procrastination
  12. Can’t See the Forest For the Trees

Booklet contains lyrics and chords of all songs

 
 

Politics, Religion and Sex (1990)

$25 (includes postage in Australia)
Special offer: two or more of any item for $20 each

To order your copy, email Bruce with your request

Track list:

  1. Amazon
  2. Save the Hippy!
  3. Good to be Back in Melbourne
  4. The Great Gorby
  5. Would Jesus be an Ocker?
  6. The Sperm
  7. Song for Leonard
  8. Folk Rap
  9. 8 Trees
  10. Eye of the Storm

Booklet contains lyrics and chords of all songs

 
 

101 Songs (2006)

$25, plus $5 postage in Australia
Special offer: two or more of any item for $20 each

To order your copy, email Bruce with your request

Includes all the songs from Bruce’s first five CDs, plus many more, including several from his newest album, Balance. It is jam packed full of fabulous words, great tunes, with musical notation, guitar chords and wonderful illustrations.

Songbook supplement

Since producing 101 Songs Bruce has written more songs, many of which are on the new CD Balance. These can be downloaded (pdfs) by clicking on the links below. You can download either the lot as one file, or individual songs.

Complete Songbook Supplement (3.9Mb)

Individual songs:
  1. As Good as New
  2. Australia's Lost Languages
  3. Campbell wasn't there (poem)
  4. Down at the Pool
  5. How to Tune the Ukulele
  6. If you can Walk you can Dance, If you can Talk you can Sing
  7. I'll Love you Till the Cows Come Home
  8. Lake Pedder Again
  9. Murrumbidgee Morning
  10. Peter Garrett Song
  11. Lament for Pluto
  12. The Beanie Song
  13. The Rules of English
  14. Wintering Over
  15. Would Jesus be an Ocker (2011 version)

Songs arranged for choir (not in Complete Songbook Supplement):
  1. Balance - arranged for choir
  2. Down at the Pool - arranged for choir
  3. If you can Walk you can Dance, etc. - arranged for choir

 

"101 Songs" is a wonderful contribution to modern Australian folk music.
Rollo Keik
Mount Beauty Music Muster

  
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