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When We Get To Brighton

from Midland Highway: The Musical by Daniel J Townsend

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    The journey from Hobart to Launceston now has a soundtrack! As heard on ABC Radio Tasmania (Sep-Nov 2020), Midland Highway: The Musical features ten songs about ten towns along this magical stretch of road. (Your car has a CD player, right? Buy this!)

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Brighton is a suburb 27 km north of Hobart, in Tasmania, Australia. The town's bypass was built over an Aboriginal site containing about 3 million artefacts, with some dating to about 40,000 years old.

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Hobart, Saturday, we only wanna get away
The traffic moves so slow
With the parking meters we can't read
And the mountain white with snow
Nana's house is 200 ks, if you're flying like the crow
But it always takes us half a day

We're gonna stop at one red traffic light,
The go and stop and go again
Up the hill and down until we
Reach that riverbend,
The bridge, the golden arches,
The roundabout and then
My mother always used to say,
When we get to Brighton we'll be on our way

When we get to Brighton we'll be on our way
Barely half an hour, but we'll stop there anyway
Dad can clean the windscreen while the kids all run and play
When we get to Brighton we'll be on our way

That BP seems enormous
And here's the reason why:
The highway used to run straight through
But now the place has been passed by
The farms are subdivided now
And the town it comes to life
The families come to stay
When we get to Brighton we'll be on our way

When we get to Brighton we'll be on our way
Barely half an hour, but we'll stop there anyway
Dad can clean the windscreen while the kids all run and play
When we get to Brighton we'll be on our way

They say someone's buried treasure
Just outside the town
40,000 summers come and gone into the ground
The highway speeds you up
But the stories slow you down
It's such a pretty place

Fifteen million mornings have brought you to today
Stop and clean your windscreen so you can see the way
Every child ever born just wants to run and play
When we get to Brighton we'll be on our way
When we get to Brighton we'll be on our way

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from Midland Highway: The Musical, released November 20, 2020
Daniel J Townsend

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"A head full of stories, a soul old enough to have lived them, and a heart young enough to believe in their power to move us."

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