Joe Zinco

Joe Zinco is a young man from Lakes Entrance and on his birthday in March he'll be twenty four He is working his way around Australia and he will go beyond his Homeland shore South to New Zealand and then north to Asia and Europe and to the Americas maybe By the bug of wander he's been badly bitten and in the bigger World there is so much to see. He has not been back to see his mum and dad in Lakes Entrance since he left home when he turned eighteen He hasn't phoned or even written to them to tell them of the places he has been To since he left the old Town by the ocean with them he never did see eye to eye Compared to his younger brother John and his twin sister Lisa of the Zinco family Joe was the wild boy. He hated school and rebelled against his teachers and he had his first smoke of cannabis at thirteen Joe Zinco in his boyhood years precocious and to the ways of life he wasn't green His father by canings tried to reform him and to him always was so very cruel And at fourteen he was arrested for house breaking and he spent four years in a reform school. Joe Zinco is a reformed young man at least reformed from what he once used to be He is one of those who works to earn his living and he comes by his money honestly He still drinks beer but not as much as he once used to and smoking cannabis he gave away The wayward teenager from old Lakes Entrance is the reformed young man of today. A love-lorn young woman pines for him in Adelaide she loved him but with her he did not stay The sedentary lifestyle not for him at present I've still so much to see you hear him say And he won't be going back to his old Hometown in Gippsland in Victoria by the sea For to visit his father and his mother and other members of his family.