《Old Gidgee Tree(Live From Australia/1973 / 1996 Remaster)》歌词

歌曲： Old Gidgee Tree(Live From Australia/1973 / 1996 Remaster)

所属专辑：Live At Tamworth

歌手： Slim Dusty

时长： 04:48

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Old Gidgee Tree (Live) (1996 - Remaster) (Live) - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提)[00:00:00]

I will tell a story true but you may doubt me [00:00:22]

And you may need a little salt to get it down[00:00:28]

A Coastal town improvement league decided[00:00:35]

To add some outback flavour to their town[00:00:41]

They transported to the coast a knarled old gidgee[00:00:47]

Transplanted it within their civic park [00:00:53]

It looked out of place with tough old twisted branches[00:00:59]

And scars where stock had rubbed against it's bark [00:01:05]

Well they cared for it and soon it started blooming [00:01:11]

But the seeds that fell lay dormant on the ground [00:01:18]

Oh the coastal trees and shrubs around ignored it [00:01:24]

And soon it's leaves and branches withered down [00:01:30]

As it happened in the town there lived a bushman [00:01:35]

Who'd been ruined by hardships of a drought [00:01:41]

And one day as he was strolling through that parkland [00:01:48]

He saw that tree and gave a joyful shout [00:01:54]

So he went there ev'ry day and dreamed beneath it[00:02:00]

And somehow that old tree just seemed to know [00:02:06]

For it started blooming once again and this time [00:02:12]

The seeds that fell at once began to grow [00:02:18]

But the man was out of place just as the tree was [00:02:23]

He was old and knew no other way of life [00:02:29]

And his health was failing through the smog pollution[00:02:35]

And the knowledge of his hard financial strife [00:02:41]

So the bushman died beneath that tree one ev'nin'[00:02:59]

And it's strange to say within a week or so [00:03:05]

The seedlings and the tree began to wither[00:03:12]

No matter what was done to make them grow [00:03:17]

For the old tree had no will to go on living [00:03:23]

Like the spirit broken bushman from the west [00:03:29]

He'd been brought there by some relatives in kindness [00:03:35]

Like the tree the people thought they did their best[00:03:41]

But where ringers boiled their quarts beneath that old tree[00:03:47]

And tied their bridal reins upon it limbs [00:03:53]

There was push bikes leaned against it and at night[00:03:59]

There were parties with their stubbies and their cans [00:04:05]

'Tis the story of a tree and one old bushman[00:04:11]

Who were taken from their home against their will[00:04:17]

And the moral of it is that very often[00:04:23]

For it's well intended kindness that can kill[00:04:29]