Years ago, the Humble Boys Club was a stalwart on this lost coast, now just the foundation remains.
NOTE: Hear Humble Boys Club as a spoken song
Humble Boys Club
Tucked in a south Westmoreland
Parish corner
a coastline bay
left to sequels of buccaneers
and earth core miners
The hard men & the Maroons
sequestered in the mountains
look long back behind, below
to forgotten sugar cane and ash
Rivers run past the opening
to the very middle of the soul
the water springs to pull you deeper
into the limestone and the very molten core
We are only Humble Boys
No poncies in our club
Overproof rum, bunks and porridge
at the end of the log flume runs
They left the coral
jagged rock to the hard men
and his schemes
the wise ones went foreign
made money and split
While the rest cemented in
tied a cabin to the very firma
which tears your feet and soul
Re-barred lashings to anchor
from impending storms
Buaxite, guano, timber cane.
And Human power.
You are a just a humble boy
toiled the sound, club burns down
Broken rubble is not your pillow
and the dust never blows away
We are just humble boys
toil the sandiness, bunkered
down huddled in, porridge with the other men
They’ll disappear into the green
disappear from everything
but remnants of life.