Ronnie & Johhny – The Last Track

Ronnie wrote the poem this song comes from in 1983 on the death of her mother’s brother, Bass. It was really written for her mother and now many years later morphed into this song.

Bass had a rough and tumble life on the farm, then joined up in ‘39 as the 106th man in Queensland to enlist for WW II.

He had given Ronnie a pony when she was twelve as she was horse mad and there was plenty of room on the farm and there were always other horses there. She learned to ride, the hard way, and was a frequent visitor to Bass’s house.

Ronnie nursed him as a student nurse at RBH during his first heart attack. Sadly, some years later he suffered a stroke which left him very debilitated and he later succumbed to a second one.