Slim Dusty - The Drover's Cook paroles de chanson

paroles de chanson The Drover's Cook - Slim Dusty



Now the drovers cook weighed fifteen stone and he had one bloodshot eye
He had no laces in his boots and no buttons on his fly
His pants hung loosly round his hips hitched by a piece of wire
And they concertined round his boots in a way that you'd admire
Well he stuck the billy on the boil and then emptied out his pipe
And with his greasy shirtsleeves he gave his nose a wipe
And with pipe in mouth he mixed a sod and the drip hung from his chin
And as he mixed the damper up the drip kept dripping in
I walked quietly over to him and said toss that mixtuer out
And in future when your working keep your pipe out of your mouth
Well he stood erect and eyed me with such a dirty look
And said in choice Australian "Get another bloody cook"
A cook I said you call yourself you greasy slop made lout
Why you should be jailed for taking work that you cannot carry out
Oh he then uncorked some language and I felt a thrill of fear
As he swung his hairy paws about and said "trot your frame out here"
In outback brawls there are no rules nor limits to the weight
So I had to squib or meet him with my meagre nine stone eight
And we both bounced into action and fell into a clinche
I put a headlock on him but I couldn't make him flinch
For hours we fought in deathly grips swung uppercuts and crosses
We staggered and founded in distress like broke and winded horses
Then gaspingly he muttered "Oh I've fought all through the north"
"Your the gamest thing I've ever struck, here give me your hand old sport"
Well I can't explain my feelings with joy I nearly cried
As we staggered to a shade close by where he sank down and died
Now you talk about that saltbush scrap why it was only play
Compared to that grueling battle we fought that fatal day
And now above his resting place where the grasses grown to seed
On stone is carved this epitath for travelers to read
Here lies the son of Donald Gunn none gamer ever stood
And he died in dinkum battle with Jimmy Underwood



Writer(s): David Gordon Kirkpatrick, Thomas John Quilty


Slim Dusty - 5 Album Set: The 1970's Classic Albums (Remastered)

1 When the Scrubbers Break
2 The Road Is Still My Home
3 The Drover's Cook
4 Land of No Second Chance
5 The Retired Drover
6 Australian Bushmen
7 When Snowy Sings of Home
8 Big John
9 Men Who Come Behind
10 Dust from the Land I Love
11 Camooweal
12 Willy Willy
13 Pickin' & Singin' - Live
14 Old Time Drover's Lament - Live
15 Old Gidgee Tree - Live
16 Election Day - Live
17 If I Were Free (Live)
18 Country Livin' - Live
19 Louisiana Man - Live
20 Cunnamulla Feller - Live
21 End of the Pub - Live
22 A Picture of Home - Live
23 Banks of the Ohio - Live
24 Middleton's Rouseabout - Live
25 Kelly's Offsider - Live
26 Lights On The Hill - Live
27 My Clinch Mountain Home - Live
28 Glory Bound Train - Live
29 Pushin' Time
30 The Home Run
31 Worst in the World
32 Foggy Mirrors
33 Ridin' This Road
34 Interstater
35 Lights On the Hill
36 Bent-Axle Bob
37 There Lies a Workhorse
38 Truckin's in My Blood
39 A Truckie's Last Will and Testament
40 Hear 'Em Go
41 Things I See Around Me
42 Blackened Quarts Are Boiling
43 Cop the Lot
44 Not Much To Show
45 Commercial DT's
46 Harry Bowden... Derelict
47 Smiles
48 Three Rivers Hotel
49 End of the Canning Stock Route
50 Good Old Days
51 Last of the Bushmen
52 Old Bull Stag
53 Walk A Country Mile
54 Son Of Noisy Dan
55 When the Rain Tumbles Down in July
56 Johnny Foster (The Old Time Travelling Showman)
57 Music My Dad Played To Me
58 Old Stock Ridin' Days
59 D Towards the Head
60 The Day I Went Back Home
61 Send 'Er Down Hughie!
62 A Pub With No Beer (1979 Version)
63 Many Yesterdays Ago
64 Old Bush Mates Of Mine
65 Territory Ringer
66 In My Hour Of Darkness




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