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"The Way" is a song by [[Graham Llewellyn Grove]], composed in 1998. An [http://grahamlgrove.googlepages.com/TheWay.mp3 MP3 recording of it can be downloaded here].
==About The Way==
As a third year medical student, I visited [[Alice Springs]] for a two week rotation in Australian Aboriginal Health. Alice Springs is a desert town in the centre of Australia's Outback. In the nearby area there are many Aboriginal people, who live in bush stations and speak their own languages and keep many of their traditional customs, in a world very different from the first world cities and farming lands of Australia. Some of them gravitate to the town Alice Springs, where there is a huge problem with alcohol. One evening whilst I was in the local Emergency Department I saw a young baby brought in severely beaten by her drunken father. Later that night a woman came in with a knife in her back. The next evening I walked along the river bed of the dry Todd River, passing some drunk men sleeping. It is a sad reality in Alice Springs. For years the Australian government has been trying to fix the problems of Aboriginal Australia without success. This is a song I wrote after my short time is Alice Springs.
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==Lyrics==
