Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Ostracism Of Vinny Valor
HSCReligion Assessment
Anthony Clifford
28th May 2012
1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – The Weeping Song 2. Darren Hanlon – The Ostracism of Vinny Lalor
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1. Go son, go down to the water
And see the women weeping there
Then go up into the mountains
The men, they are weeping too
Father, why are all the women weeping?
They are weeping for their men
Then why are all the men there weeping?
They are weeping back at them
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While all the men and women sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping long
Father, why are all the children weeping?
They are merely crying, son
O, are they merely crying, father?
Yes, true weeping is yet to come
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While all the little children sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping long
O father tell me, are you weeping?
Your face seems wet to touch
O then I'm so sorry, father
I never thought I hurt you so much …show more content…
It is an incredibly tragic and true story from the 1940’s. The story goes that a young girl named Vinny Lalor was at a dance in her home town of Pomona in Queensland. She sat awkwardly on the side of the dance floor and watched the couples on the dance floor. She was very different to everybody else and did not understand them. As she walked home she delivered her first kiss to a ‘half-witted pimpled lad’ (this is how Darren described him). The next school day the boy would not talk to her and she was teased and told that the kiss had got her pregnant. She was bullied for the next few days until she tragically killed herself due to the combined stress that she was being teased and that she thought she was pregnant. I know this information as I spoke to Darren at the end of a low key concert about
Anthony Clifford
28th May 2012
1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – The Weeping Song 2. Darren Hanlon – The Ostracism of Vinny Lalor
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1. Go son, go down to the water
And see the women weeping there
Then go up into the mountains
The men, they are weeping too
Father, why are all the women weeping?
They are weeping for their men
Then why are all the men there weeping?
They are weeping back at them
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While all the men and women sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping long
Father, why are all the children weeping?
They are merely crying, son
O, are they merely crying, father?
Yes, true weeping is yet to come
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While all the little children sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping long
O father tell me, are you weeping?
Your face seems wet to touch
O then I'm so sorry, father
I never thought I hurt you so much …show more content…
It is an incredibly tragic and true story from the 1940’s. The story goes that a young girl named Vinny Lalor was at a dance in her home town of Pomona in Queensland. She sat awkwardly on the side of the dance floor and watched the couples on the dance floor. She was very different to everybody else and did not understand them. As she walked home she delivered her first kiss to a ‘half-witted pimpled lad’ (this is how Darren described him). The next school day the boy would not talk to her and she was teased and told that the kiss had got her pregnant. She was bullied for the next few days until she tragically killed herself due to the combined stress that she was being teased and that she thought she was pregnant. I know this information as I spoke to Darren at the end of a low key concert about