《Sweeney(1996 Digital Remaster)》歌词

歌曲： Sweeney(1996 Digital Remaster)

所属专辑：Henry Lawson and ’Banjo’ Paterson (Remastered)

歌手： Slim Dusty

时长： 03:16

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Sweeney - Slim Dusty[00:00:00]

Written by：Slim Dusty/Henry Lawson[00:00:01]

It was somewhere in september[00:00:03]

And the sun was goin' down[00:00:05]

When I came in search of coffee[00:00:08]

To a darling river town[00:00:11]

Come and have a drink we'll call it[00:00:15]

Tis a fitting name I think[00:00:18]

And was raining[00:00:20]

For a wonder up at[00:00:21]

Come and have a drink[00:00:23]

Underneath the pub verander[00:00:27]

I was resting on a bunk[00:00:30]

When a stranger Rose before me[00:00:32]

And he said that he was drunk[00:00:35]

He apologised for speaking[00:00:39]

There was no offence he swore[00:00:42]

But he somehow seemed to fancy that[00:00:45]

He'd seen my face before[00:00:47]

He agreed you can't remember[00:00:52]

All the chaps you chance to meet[00:00:54]

And he said his name was Sweeney[00:00:57]

People lived in sussex street[00:00:59]

He was camping in a stable[00:01:03]

That he swore that he was right[00:01:06]

Only for the blanky horses[00:01:09]

Walkin' over him all night[00:01:11]

He'd apparently been fighting[00:01:16]

For his face was black and blue[00:01:18]

And it looked as though the horses[00:01:21]

Had been treading on him too[00:01:23]

But an honest genial twinkle[00:01:28]

In the eye that wasn't hurt[00:01:30]

Seemed to hint of something better[00:01:33]

Spite of drink and rags and dirt[00:01:35]

He was born in parramatta[00:01:40]

And he said with humour grim[00:01:42]

That he'd like to see the city[00:01:45]

Ever liquor finished him[00:01:47]

But he couldn't raise the money[00:01:52]

He was d**ned if he could think[00:01:54]

What the government was doing here[00:01:57]

He offered me a drink[00:02:00]

I declined was self denial[00:02:04]

And I lectured him on booze[00:02:06]

Using all the hackneyed arguments[00:02:09]

That preachers mostly use[00:02:12]

Things I'd heard in temperance lectures[00:02:16]

I was young and rather green[00:02:19]

And I ended by referring to the man[00:02:21]

He might have been[00:02:25]

But he couldn't stay to argue[00:02:28]

For his beer was nearly gone[00:02:31]

He was glad[00:02:33]

He said to meet me[00:02:34]

And he'd see me later on[00:02:36]

But he guessed he'd have to go[00:02:40]

And get his bottle filled again[00:02:42]

And he gave a lurch and vanished in the[00:02:45]

Darkness and the rain[00:02:48]

And the afternoons in cities[00:02:53]

When the rain is on[00:02:56]

The land[00:02:57]

Visions come to me of Sweeney[00:02:59]

With his bottle in[00:03:01]

His hand[00:03:03]