MATT FLINDERS - PICKING UP FLINDERS

PICKING UP PEBBLES

MATT FLINDERS

SONGWRITER: JOHNNY CURTIS

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

ALBUM: PICKING UP PEBBLES/COMPACT DISCK

LABEL: ASTOR

GENRE: FOLK MUSIC

YEAR: 1969

Single on Astor label, produced by Ron Tudor. The B-side was Susan Walks Away, an original by Aussie songwriter Peter Best, also the B-side in the US (see below).

Matt Flinders: singer, bassist, band leader and TV entertainer, born in Egypt of French-Italian-British background, in Australia since 1951. Formerly known as Louis Bonett, his adopted name would sound familiar to most Australians through the name of the explorer and chartmaker Matthew Flinders (1774-1814).

Verse 1:

Look at the kids on the sandy shore

Watching the tide come in.

I used to do the same sweet things.

What pleasures it did bring;

Chorus:

Picking up pebbles and throwing them into the sea;

Watching the white surf carry them on back to me,

But now it's all over, I've grown up, it don't seem the same.

The things in my childhood I know were all just a game.

Verse 2:

To sit in my bed and watch the stars high up in the sky;

To say my prayers, then off to sleep and then to wave them goodbye.

Chorus 2:

Wouldn't it be nice if clocks could be turned back in years

Just to relive the good times and all the good tears?

Oh, but it brings joy to see them looking so gay.

How I wish I could go back to my childhood days.

Repeat verse 1

Repeat chorus 1 twice