Name: A Hundred Years (Great Ocean Road)
Duration: P00H01M53S
Description: For our upcoming Lorne Festival of Performing Arts appearance we have re-written and recorded our own version of the traditional shanty 'A Hundred Years Ago.' It celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the construction of the Great Ocean Road.

A Hundred Years (Great Ocean Road)

by The Southern Ocean Sea Band

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For our upcoming Lorne Festival of Performing Arts appearance we have re-written and recorded our own version of the traditional shanty 'A Hundred Years Ago.' It celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the construction of the Great Ocean Road.

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O, A Hundred Years for the Ocean Road,
O Yes, Oh!
A Hundred Years all carved & mowed
A Hundred Years ago,

Yes the Ocean Road is a sight to see,
O Yes, Oh!
With it’s curving slopes and Steep Ravine
A Hundred Years ago,

It’ll take you down along the coast
O Yes, Oh!
Those turns will ‘ave you white as a ghost
A Hundred Years ago,

Well it once were coined a “tolerable road,”
O Yes, Oh!
Where the light first shone and the wind it blowed,
A Hundred Years ago,

Well the light it guides ‘round Cape Otway
O Yes, Oh!
And onwards through the treacherous strait
A Hundred Years ago,

The road was built by returning vets
O Yes, Oh!
To commemorate - lest we forget
A Hundred Years ago,

Well the Ocean Road is a very fine path
O Yes, Oh!
It’ll stay in your mind til long long aft
A Hundred Years ago,

It’ll take you down to a place called Lorne,
O Yes, Oh!
A place you’ll wish you ‘ad been born
A Hundred Years ago,

To the festival of Performin’ Arts,
O Yes, Oh!
I raise to you a foggy old glass…
A Hundred Years ago,

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released March 10, 2019
trad. shanty.
Adapted lyrically by Gus Franklin & Jordan Lockett.
Produced at Sheahan Drive, October 2019.

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The Southern Ocean Sea Band Port Fairy, Australia

The Southern Ocean Sea Band are a 10-piece band singing historical songs & shanties about their hometown.

Borne directly from the late Danny Spooner’s ‘Shanties at the River,’ sessions, they made their Port Fairy Folk Festival debut to launch their album, 'Blood & Bones & Fins & Glory,' in 2017, and have since toured the regions, spreading their historical songs & shanty love far and wide. ... more

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