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| 04 | Goodbye Mitchy (Ryan)
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As part of the track selection process, folks on our mailing list were invited to submit their suggestions (many thanks to all). I have to admit I was rather surprised by some of the songs that scored highly; some of which I'd forgotten even existed! Near the top of this list was 'Goodbye Mitchy'; not a track I would have necessarily chosen, if only because it features the worst rhyme of my writing career - "lady" with (ahem ..) "afraid-ee". Written (somewhat fatalistically and definitely prophetically) for my then girlfriend Jan Miller (now Henderson),'Mitchy' materialised as a whole song whilst I was driving from Subiaco to my house in West Perth - a 10 minute journey. Ah - those were the days! Maybe it's my farm-boy background, but for some reason - with such lines as "you ain't gone yet" and "I done my best" - it sounds like it was composed by a toothless, Alabama sharecropper. Well, I was driving a Ford Ute at the time. Sadly, I lost touch with Mitchy after she moved back to New Zealand. If there's anyone out there who knows her whereabouts, please ask her to give me an ahoy!
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