🎵 Paul Kelly 'Kills Off' Beloved 'How To Make Gravy' Character

Paul Kelly has laid his most famous character to rest.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Well, it's one of Australia's
most famous songs, most emotional songs, this one how to
make Play? Who was going to make the graving? I
get mousie every time I hear that great song? What
about it? Well? What about it? The song, as we know,

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is about Joe. He's writing, he's in prison and he's
writing a letter to his family just before Christmas. Hello, damn,
it's Joe here. I hope you're keeping well. So twenty
first of the Sami Areena, last bell. If he gets
good behavior, he'll be out of there by well. Yesterday,

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in the Melbourne newspaper The Age, Paul Kelly posted a
death notice for Joe, the incarcerated narrator of that very song,
Nestled on page thirty three. The obituary says Joe died
of sudden misadventure. Well, I read you the obitue. Please,
with great sorrow, we announced the death of Joe by
sudden misadventure? Was he still in prison moving? He was

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out of there by July. But he's an airdo will
so I would say he's probably a repeat offender. Toy
probably rhymes with that he did something or because of
Victoria's lax bailed too, esting around with a machete gag
sure probably chopped off his own head with a machete anyway,
death by sudden misadventure. Those other words were filled in

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by Brendan Jones much loved father, husband, brother, brother in
Laura and uncle to Dan, Rita Stella, Roger, Mary Angus,
Franken Dolly. We'll miss you badly, Joe. You loved life
and went hard at it. You love music, food, football, celebration,
tall tales and strong argument. We can still see you
cooking up a storm in the kitchen at our big
family gatherings, pots and pans on the go, barbecue smoking outside,

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glass of wine in hand, your beloved reggae music on
the stereo, Junior Mervyn Linton, Quasi Johnson, Gregory, Isaac and
the like. You fill up everyone's drinks and teasing the
little ones. Christmas won't be the same this year without you.
Who's going to make the gravy? But we know you'll
always be with us, hovering above us, floating all around us,
making sure we get it right and laughing when we don't.

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And then it goes on to say the funeral in
Service will be on August fourteen, followed by Wake to
End All Wakes. Further details to follow. What's intriguing about
this is people. Apparently last week Paul Kelly also posted
a picture of the actress Justine Saunders, who plays Rita
in the series. He is writing a letter. She's filmed

(02:31):
writing a letter. So there's always been talk of another
reader writes a letter. I think is going to be
the follow up song for this speculation about where this
is leading. Maybe she becomes reader the eater, eater O
God and suns hear me so I have to hear
you out spooking Marjorie. Maybe that's what she does to

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make ends meet her there dere Will husband has been
roaming with African Games in Melbourne since from this, I
think I watched watch too much A current affair. I
loves Where's Joe? I don't mention that I who knows
where What this means Paul Kelly has released think Paul

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is going to want to do a co lab. Do
you think I've got my pen? Please? Ready to go?
We'll wait and see