What Ya Gonna Do When The Bomb Goes Off?

What y’gonna do

When the bomb goes off

When y’teeth fall out

An’ we ain’t got Gough?

What y’ gonna do

When the bomb goes off,

Will ya tell me will ya

What ya gonna do?

 

I’ll be sittin’ pretty

When the bomb goes off

In the old man’s cellar

With a glass o’ Smirnoff.

Gradually unable

On the old Red Label

To be worried what’ll happen

When the bomb goes off.

 

What y’ gonna do

With no Don Dunny

When there ain’t no shops

And there ain’t no money?

What y’ gonna do

When the road’s all runny

Will ya tell me will ya

What y’ gonna do?

 

I’m gonna cancel all the

Laws for the livin’,

Take the take from the takers

And the give from ‘forgiven,

I’m gonna make meself

A brand new flag

An’ fly it from a Chevy

Down the ol’ main drag.

 

What y’ gonna do

When there ain’t no fuzz

An’ there ain’t no grass

‘cos the grass ain’t gruz?

What y’ gonna do

When ya get no buzz,

Will ya tell me will ya

What y’ gonna do?

 

I’m gonna get meself

A big hangover

Where the high’s so high

That y’ can’t get lower.

Then I’m gonna get meself

A black chequered hat

An’ scare all the Cockies

Off the Birdsville Track.

 

What y’ gonna do

If there ain’t no chics,

If there ain’t no fellas

An’ there ain’t no kicks?

What y’ gonna do

If there ain’t no flics,

Will ya tell me will ya

What y’ gonna do?

 

If there ain’t no chics

And there ain’t no fellas

An’ I’m caught dead drunk

In the old man’s cellar;

If there ain’t no shops

And the grass ain’t gruz

And there ain’t no money

And there ain’t no fuzz.

 

If there ain’t no flics

An’ there ain’t no Chevy

And there ain’t no Cockies

(Now y’ really gettin’ heavy);

If there ain’t no Donny

And there ain’t no Gough…

I’ll shoot m’bloody self

When the bomb goes off.

 

David Lewis Paget

 

1977

 

(Don Dunny - Labor Premier of Sth. Australia

Don Dunstan in the 1960's.

Gough - Gough Whitlam, Labor Prime Minister

of Australia, 1972 - 1975)

Reviews

[roarke]

gotta love this one, shades of Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow"
I don't know if any one bloke can do more after the bomb.