《Clancy of the Overflow》歌词

歌曲： Clancy of the Overflow

所属专辑：Orchestral Songs of Australia

歌手： Barry Ryan

时长： 05:18

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Clancy of the Overflow - Barry Ryan[00:00:00]

I had written him a letter which I had for want of better[00:00:53]

Knowledge sent to where I met him down the Lachlan years ago [00:00:59]

He was shearing when I knew him so I sent the letter to him [00:01:06]

Just on spec addressed as follows[00:01:12]

Clancy of The Overflow[00:01:15]

And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected [00:01:29]

And I think the same was written in a thumbnail dipped in tar[00:01:35]

'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it and verbatim I will quote it:[00:01:42]

Clancy's gone to Queensland droving and we don't know where he are [00:01:47]

In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy[00:01:55]

Gone a-droving down the Cooper where the western drovers go;[00:02:02]

As the stock are slowly stringing [00:02:08]

Clancy rides behind them singing [00:02:11]

For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know [00:02:14]

And the bush hath friends to meet him and their kindly voices greet him[00:02:20]

In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars [00:02:26]

And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended [00:02:33]

And at night the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars [00:02:39]

I am sitting in my dingy little office where a stingy[00:02:56]

Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall [00:03:01]

And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty dirty city[00:03:06]

Through the open window floating spreads its foulness over all [00:03:11]

And in place of lowing cattle I can hear the fiendish rattle[00:03:16]

Of the tramways and the buses making hurry down the street [00:03:21]

And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting [00:03:26]

Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet [00:03:31]

And the hurrying people daunt me and their pallid faces haunt me[00:03:36]

As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste [00:03:40]

With their eager eyes and greedy and their stunted forms and weedy [00:03:45]

For townsfolk have no time to grow they have no time to waste [00:03:51]

And I somehow rather fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy [00:04:02]

Like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go [00:04:09]

While he faced the round eternal of the cashbook and the journal[00:04:15]

But I doubt he'd suit the office Clancy of[00:04:21]

The overflow[00:04:25]

And the bush hath friends to meet him and their kindly voices greet him[00:04:28]

In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars [00:04:35]

And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended [00:04:41]

And at night the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars[00:04:47]