Music
Bill's songs and stories feature regularly on radio and television and his plays have been performed throughout Australia. He has performed his songs and stories from outback places such as Mount Dare (pop.10), down the Birdsville Track with the Great Australian Cattle Drive, on the Ghan as part of Great Southern Rail's ANZAC Tribute Journey and at the Transport Hall of Fame gala dinner at Alice Springs with Slim Dusty.
'Bill "Swampy" Marsh shared his life and talents generously with an appreciative audience…his love of the Australian countryside and the people who live there was evident in every ballad and story he sang and told.'
—Border Chronicle
'Hi Swampy—Just want to say a big "thank you". It was fantastic to have you aboard & the performance was brilliant. I hope you're willing to work with us again as we will most definitely be booking you again and recommending you to others! Enjoy your upcoming trip on The Ghan!'
—Jessica Playford (Great Southern Rail)
'The CD arrived today. We all stood 'round and listened. And we all got choked up and teary. It is so beautiful.'
—Kate Mayes (Publisher–Little Hare)
'What a great song—Band of the Lord. I wept because I know that saving grace that opens your eyes to life—real life on a very intimate level. You have spent much of your life writing those stories of others but I believe God has allowed you to experience His great love for you in a way only you know its depth just for you.'
—Christine Manning (Uniting Church, Hallett Cove)
'Thank you so very much for the words to Band of the Lord. Perfection! The bridge exquisitely describes the indescribable, which due to the constraints of language, can only be spoken of in paradoxical terms.'
'I so thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon, was mesmerized by your talk, and in tears after your last song, Old Man Australia'
Open Roads
Wherever I roam
in this great big world,
there's nowhere I'd rather be
than an open fire,
a place called home,
and just you and me.
~Tonight
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Glory, Glory
Glory, glory, what can it be
there's a sound up on high
that only angels can see.
Glory, glory, what can it be,
the flying doctor
is coming for me.
~Glory, Glory
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A Drover's Wife
A drover's wife,
it's no kind of life
for a woman keen
on settling down.
She needs a man
who's always at hand
to take her out on the town.
~A Drover's Wife
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Australia
Oh my heart,
it belongs to Australia.
Oh my heart,
it belongs to the land.
From the deep blue seas
that surround her
to her centre of gibber and sand.
~Australia
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If you would like to order personally signed
books or CDs then
contact Bill 'Swampy' Marsh.