Stewie(Chords)

	        Another cheerful ditty from Redgum's 'Caught in the act' live album. The 'step forward' stanzas  
have a different chord progression to all the others. 
 
 
Am                G 
Ward 8 at the QE, somwhere down Woodville 
Am                    Em 
Smokey grey Thursday, take out your sword 
Am                         C 
Stewie was born, there was blood on the sheets 
G                        E7 
Doctor was drunk and the sister was bored 
 
 
Home was a weatherboard housing trust unit 
A low cyclone fence with a sparse gravel drive 
Dad was a truckie from Adelaide to Melbourne 
Two trips a week just to keep them alive 
 
 
First sentence for Stewie was going to school 
In prison grey trousers he walked in the yard 
His Mum shed a tear at his vaselined pushback 
Clutching a ruler his name on a card 
 
 
     Dm              Am         G          Am 
Step forward Stewart Bedson the headmaster said 
   G                      Am 
It seemed like Stewie was always in strife 
     Dm              Am         G          Am 
Step forward Stewart Bedson the magistrate said 
G                   F    E7   Am 
This time 10 years, next time life 
 
 
Grades 1-7 passed pretty quickly 
Detention and caning and one million lines 
Stewie could write just enough to get by 
Stewie could read all the shoplifting signs 
 
 
There was a bond for a biro, a fine for some fags 
Another kids bike leading up to a car 
Photographs, fingerprints and juvenile courthouse 
A year in McNallies for going too far 
 
 
Step forward Stewart Bedson the magistrate said 
Over pine panneled wood leant the face of the law 
We think you're a threat to property and justice 
3 years up the creek while we make sure 
 
 
Robbery and violence and retaliation 
For beatings and bashings at the hands of the screws 
Time in and time out time and again 
Is this what they mean by paying your dues 
 
 
Some people have plenty while others have none 
For the same working week seen year after year 
Worked over by coppers for tipping the scales 
Life wasn't meant to be easy 
 
 
Step forward Stewart Bedson the magistrate said 
Over pine panneled wood leant the face of the law 
We think you're a threat to property and justice 
3 years up the creek while we make sure 
 
 
Ward 8 at the QE, somwhere down Woodville 
Smokey grey Thursday, take out your sword 
Stewie was born, there was blood on the sheets 
Doctor was drunk and the sister was bored