Slim Dusty - The Wave Hill Track Lyrics

Lyrics The Wave Hill Track - Slim Dusty



My thoughts have often wandered to the days that have gone by
When I was drovin' bullocks across the Murranji
Oh they told me in the Isa, just a short time back
That no more walking bullocks came down the wave hill track
Instead of dusty stock routes beef roads have been put through
And the transports do the droving we drovers used to do
Oh instead of dusty stockman with their quart pots on the boil
They have thermos flask and overalls soaked in grease and oil
Instrumental
They don't use bells and hobbles these trucks don't run that way
They just pull back a lever and they sit there night and day
There's no more use for windmills who water the traveling mob
It only takes a billy full to do the drovers job
They don't take loads of tucker like we drovers used to do
A loaf of bread and tin of jam will feed the transport crew
Oh imagine the old time drovers with their whiskers blowing back
Steering a giant Leyland down the wave hill track
Instrumental
But I think we'll best forget it for the trucks now take our place
And the whiskery faced old drover is just a dyin' race
Se we'll leave it to the transports and the men with oil and grease
Forget the old road drover and may he rest in peace
My thoughts have often wandered to the days that have gone by
When I was drovin' bullocks across the Murranji
Oh they told me in the Isa just a short time back
That no more walking bullocks came down the wave hill track
Down the wave hill track



Writer(s): David Kirkpatrick, George Crowley


Slim Dusty - 5 Album Set: The Classic Albums - 1960's (Remastered)

1 Born to Be a Rolling Stone
2 Rovin' Gambler
3 Bumming Around
4 Whiskey Blues
5 May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight, Mister
6 The Road to Gundagai
7 Three Times Seven
8 Little Blossom
9 Travellin' Guitar
10 Down the Track
11 I'll Be a Bachelor Till I Die
12 Somebody's Mother Tonight
13 Jumpin' the Rattler
14 By A Fire Of Gidgee Coal
15 Song of Australia
16 When You're Short of a Quid
17 Back To The Saltbush Plains
18 Laughter in the Hills
19 Condamine Horse Bell
20 The Bushman's Song
21 Easy Goin' Drifter
22 The Westerway Waltz
23 The Last of the Valley Mail
24 Claypan Boogie
25 Fair Enough
26 Dream Time Voices
27 The Crow
28 Ghosts Of The Golden Mile
29 Back in the Saddle
30 I Must Have Good Terbaccy When I Smoke
31 Hard Hard Country
32 St. Peter
33 Old Man Drought
34 Back Where I Belong
35 Old Beau
36 Old Mates
37 Arcadia Valley
38 Dry Weather Wind
39 Getting Away From It All
40 Casey's Luck
41 Old Tiboob'ra
42 Somewhere Up In Queensland
43 Cattle Camp Crooner
44 Ribs Cooked on the Coals
45 Relics of the Past
46 Paddy Gramp
47 Horse and Hobble Days
48 The Wave Hill Track




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