True Blue-John Williamson

John is a renowned Australian country music singer/songwriter.
Recorded live in concert
QUOTE:
"John Williamson's song True Blue is a lament of a vanishing culture. True Blue is, again, an extension of the Aussie bushman, the rugged, quiet, dependable "good bloke" of the post-war years. He's a hero made in the image of Australians of Anglo-Celtic heritage -- those who value honest, hard work and decent, principled conduct.

You can say a lot about True Blue but we know he wasn't a skiter. And he wouldn't dob his mates in either -- and how far that can be morally correct we presume he knows. We pray he's not like those frontier squatters and their "conspiracy of silence" about the massacre of natives.

True Blue is fair dinkum, reliable and always does the "right thing". He's the bloke who comes along on a miserable day when you're broken down and stranded. And nothing is too much trouble for him. He's seen plenty. He's not flash; he'll tie it up with wire and get you going. Probably make you laugh too."

(Quote from article by Neil Murray, The Age, Saturday 6 July 2002)