- published: 22 Jun 2016
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William Thomas "Tommy" Emmanuel AM (born 31 May 1955) is an Australian guitarist and occasional singer, best known for his complex fingerstyle technique, energetic performances and the use of percussive effects on the guitar. In the May 2008 and 2010 issues of Guitar Player Magazine, he was named as "Best Acoustic Guitarist" in their readers' poll. In June 2010 Emmanuel was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
Emmanuel was born in Australia in 1955. He received his first guitar in 1959 at age four, being taught by his mother to accompany her playing lap steel guitar. At the age of 7 he heard Chet Atkins on the radio. He vividly remembers this moment and says it greatly inspired him.
By the age of 6, in 1961, he was a working professional musician. Recognizing the musical talents of Tommy and his brother Phil, their father created a family band, sold the family home and took his family on the road. With the family living in two station wagons, much of Emmanuel’s childhood was spent touring Australia with his family, playing rhythm guitar, and rarely going to school. The family found it difficult living on the road; they were poor but never hungry, never settling in one place. His father would often drive ahead, organize interviews, advertising and finding the local music shop where they'd have an impromptu concert the next day. Eventually the New South Wales Department of Education insisted that the Emmanuel children needed to go to school regularly.
[Intro:]
Oh oooh oh oooh oh, oh my darlin
Oh oooh girl...
[Verse 1:]
She ready fi live up, give thanks she atrt
Nuh matta mama, papa, nor it, aunti rot
Cho! She haffi ride di big donkey cart
Love di heart of di nyah, from di heart
She's unevil and Irie, and she smart
I seh she's more than beautiful, and she laugh
Caan give har nuh money fi tek har clothes off
Nuh trick har wid nuh fancy talk, I Wayne
[Chorus:]
Touch her softly, she erupted shortly
She seh now, mi mek my day
She need life seeds within har ovaries
Yeah, touch her softly, she erupted shortly
She seh oh rastafariiiiiiii!!!!
Di I perform so smartly, yeah
[Verse 2:]
She love life and she believe in it patiently
She said di donkey cart safer than my Bentley
Were in di chariot sippin up my sensi
Fruits, herbs, nuts I presentin
She seh fi touch har up I did it gently
She so young and green she just twenty
I be fillin har cup and neva let it be empty
Oh oh, so diligently
[Chorus:]
Touch her softly, she erupted shortly
She seh now, mi mek my day
She need life seeds within har ovaries
Yeah, touch her softly, she erupted shortly
She seh oh rastafariiiiiiii!!!!
Di I perform so smartly, yeah
[Verse 3:]
Hi Empress Sonia tell har fi keep it real and don't be phony
Tell har to sip up like biter and like no name
Tell hartek out di mighty dildo it's so stoney
Nuttin weh boney boney
Yuh have [?] and di herbs to keep yuh rosey
Too much blasted tobacco mek she lose it
She just [?] tun a bright no froze it
Bun deliquent bun Josey
[Chorus:]
Touch her softly, she erupted shortly
She seh now, mi mek my day
She need life seeds within har ovaries
Yeah, touch her softly, she erupted shortly
She seh oh rastafariiiiiiii!!!!
Di I perform so smartly, yeah