Paul Kelly Lyrics
All Songs
A Bastard Like Me
Adelaide
After The Show
Alive and Well
All Those Smiling Faces
Anastasia Changes Her Mind
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Be Careful What You Pray For
Beautiful Feeling
Before the Old Man Died
Before Too Long
Beggar On The Street Of Love
Behind the Bowler's Arm
Bicentennial
Big Fine Girl
Big Heart
Billy Baxter
Bird on a Wire
Blue Stranger
Blues For Skip
Blush
Bound to Follow (Aisling Song)
Bradman
Brighter
Careless
Change Your Mind
Christmas
Christmas Must Be Tonight
Clean This House
Cold as Canada
Come by Here
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Curly Red
Darling It Hurts
Deeper Water
Don't Harm the Messenger
Don't Start Me Talking
Dumb Things
El Tamborilero
Every Day My Mother's Voice
Every F*cking City
Every Fucking City
Every Fucking City [Live]
Everything's Turning to White
Execution
Finally Something Good
Firewood and Candles
For the Ages
Forbidden Street
Forty-Eight Angels
From Little Things Big Things Grow
From St Kilda To Kings Cross
Gift That Keeps on Giving
Give in to My Love
Glory Be To God
God Told Me To
God's Grandeur
Gonna Be Good
How to Make Gravy
Hummin' to Myself
I Can't Believe We Were Married
I Close My Eyes and Think of You
I Had Forgotten You
I Still Pray Feat Kasey Chamber
I Won't Be Torn Apart
I Won't Be Your Dog Anymore
I'd Rather Go Blind
If I Could Start Today Again
I'm on Your Side
Incident on South Dowling
It Started with a Kiss
It's All Downhill from Here
I've Been a Fool
Josephina
Keep It to Yourself
Keep on Driving
King of Fools
Last Train to Heaven
Leaps and Bounds
Leaving Her for the Last Time
Lenny (To Live Is to Burn)
Letter in the Rain
Little Aches and Pains
Little Boy Don't Lose Your Balls
Little Drummer Boy
Little Kings
Little Wolf
Look So Fine, Feel So Low
Love Is The Law
Love Letter
Love Never Runs on Time
Maralinga (Rainy Land)
Maybe This Time For Sure
Meet Me in the Middle of the Air
Midnight Rain
Moon in the Bed
Morning Storm
Most Wanted Man in the World
Mushrooms
My Man's Got a Cold
Native Born
New Found Year
No You
None of Your Business Now
Nothing on My Mind
Nowhere to Hide
O Mistress Mine
One Night the Moon
Other People's Houses
Our Sunshine
Petrichor
Randwick Bells
Reckless
Right Outta My Head
Rising Moon
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
Seagulls of Seattle
See You in Paradise
Shy Before You, Lord
Skidding Hearts
Sleep, Australia, Sleep
So Blue
Some Guys
Someone New
Sometimes My Baby
Somewhere In The City
Song from the Sixteenth Floor
Sonnet 138
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 60
Sonnet 73
Sonnets 44 and 45
South of Germany
Standing on The Street of Early Sorrows
Stories of Me
Summer Rain
Sweet Guy
Sweet Guy Waltz
Sweetest Thing
Sydney from a 727
Take Your Time
Taught by Experts
Thank You
The Ballad of Queenie and Rover
The Ballroom
The Foggy Fields of France
The Lion and the Lamb
The Oldest Story in the Book
The Pretty Place
The River Song
The Trees
These Are the Days
They Thought I Was Asleep
Tighten Up
Time & Tide
To Be Good Takes a Long Time
To Her Door
Touchy Babe
When I First Met Your Ma
White Train
Winter Coat
With Animals
With the One I Love
Won't You Come Around?
You Broke a Beautiful Thing
You Can Put Your Shoes Under My Bed
You Can't Take It with You
Young Lovers
Your Little Sister (Is a Big Girl Now)
Your Lovin' Is on My Mind
Your Loving Is on My Mind
You're 39, You're Beautiful and You're Mine
Paul Maurice Kelly AO is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter and guitarist. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five. Kelly's music style has ranged from bluegrass to studio-oriented dub reggae, but his core output straddles folk, rock and country. His lyrics capture the vastness of the culture and landscape of Australia by chronicling life about him for over 30 years. David Fricke from Rolling Stone calls Kelly "one of the finest songwriters I have ever heard, Australian or otherwise". Kelly has said, "Song writing is mysterious to me. I still feel like a total beginner. I don't feel like I have got it nailed yet."
After growing up in Adelaide, Kelly travelled around Australia before settling in Melbourne in 1976. He became involved in the pub rock scene and drug culture and recorded two albums with the Dots. Kelly moved to Sydney by 1985, where he formed Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls. The band was renamed Paul Kelly and the Messengers, initially only for international releases, to avoid possible racial interpretations of the word "coloured". At the end of the 1980s, Kelly returned to Melbourne, and in 1991 he disbanded the Messengers.
Kelly's Top 40 singles include "Billy Baxter", "Before Too Long", "Darling It Hurts", "To Her Door" (his highest-charting local hit in 1987), "Dumb Things" (appeared on United States charts in 1988) and "Roll on Summer". Top-20 albums include Gossip, Under the Sun, Comedy, Songs from the South (1997 compilation), ...Nothing but a Dream, Stolen Apples, Spring and Fall, The Merri Soul Sessions, Seven Sonnets and a Song, Death's Dateless Night (with Charlie Owen), Life Is Fine (his first number-one album) and Nature. Kelly has won 14 Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Music Awards, including his induction into their hall of fame in 1997. Dan Kelly, his nephew, is a singer and guitarist in his own right. Dan performed with Kelly on Ways and Means and Stolen Apples. Both were members of Stardust Five, which released a self-titled album in 2006. On 22 September 2010, Kelly released his memoir, How to Make Gravy, which he described as "it's not traditional; it's writing around the A-Z theme - I tell stories around the song lyrics in alphabetical order". His biographical film Paul Kelly: Stories of Me, directed by Ian Darling, was released to cinemas in October 2012.
In 2001, the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) listed the Top 30 Australian songs of all time, which included Kelly's To Her Door, and Treaty, written by Kelly and members of Yothu Yindi. Aside from Treaty, Kelly wrote or co-wrote several songs on Indigenous Australian social issues and historical events. He provided songs for many other artists, tailoring them to their particular vocal range. The album Women at the Well from 2002 had 14 female artists record his songs in tribute.
Kelly was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017 for distinguished service to the performing arts and to the promotion of the national identity through contributions as a singer, songwriter and musician. Kelly was married and divorced twice; he has three children and resides in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne.
Birth Name: Paul Maurice KellyAfter growing up in Adelaide, Kelly travelled around Australia before settling in Melbourne in 1976. He became involved in the pub rock scene and drug culture and recorded two albums with the Dots. Kelly moved to Sydney by 1985, where he formed Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls. The band was renamed Paul Kelly and the Messengers, initially only for international releases, to avoid possible racial interpretations of the word "coloured". At the end of the 1980s, Kelly returned to Melbourne, and in 1991 he disbanded the Messengers.
Kelly's Top 40 singles include "Billy Baxter", "Before Too Long", "Darling It Hurts", "To Her Door" (his highest-charting local hit in 1987), "Dumb Things" (appeared on United States charts in 1988) and "Roll on Summer". Top-20 albums include Gossip, Under the Sun, Comedy, Songs from the South (1997 compilation), ...Nothing but a Dream, Stolen Apples, Spring and Fall, The Merri Soul Sessions, Seven Sonnets and a Song, Death's Dateless Night (with Charlie Owen), Life Is Fine (his first number-one album) and Nature. Kelly has won 14 Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Music Awards, including his induction into their hall of fame in 1997. Dan Kelly, his nephew, is a singer and guitarist in his own right. Dan performed with Kelly on Ways and Means and Stolen Apples. Both were members of Stardust Five, which released a self-titled album in 2006. On 22 September 2010, Kelly released his memoir, How to Make Gravy, which he described as "it's not traditional; it's writing around the A-Z theme - I tell stories around the song lyrics in alphabetical order". His biographical film Paul Kelly: Stories of Me, directed by Ian Darling, was released to cinemas in October 2012.
In 2001, the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) listed the Top 30 Australian songs of all time, which included Kelly's To Her Door, and Treaty, written by Kelly and members of Yothu Yindi. Aside from Treaty, Kelly wrote or co-wrote several songs on Indigenous Australian social issues and historical events. He provided songs for many other artists, tailoring them to their particular vocal range. The album Women at the Well from 2002 had 14 female artists record his songs in tribute.
Kelly was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017 for distinguished service to the performing arts and to the promotion of the national identity through contributions as a singer, songwriter and musician. Kelly was married and divorced twice; he has three children and resides in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne.
Born: 13 January 1955 (age 69)
From: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Genre(s): Australian rock, folk
Instrument(s): Vocals, guitar, harmonica
Occupation(s): Musician, singer-songwriter, producer, poet
Active From: 1974-present