《Men Who Come Behind(Remaster 1996)》歌词

歌曲： Men Who Come Behind(Remaster 1996)

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

歌手： Slim Dusty

时长： 03:31

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Men Who Come Behind - Slim Dusty[00:00:00]

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

There's a class of men and women[00:00:08]

Who are always on their guard[00:00:11]

Cunning treacherous suspicious[00:00:14]

Feeling softly grasping hard[00:00:16]

Yet without the courage[00:00:20]

To forsake the beaten track[00:00:22]

Wearily they feel their way behind[00:00:25]

A bolder spirit's back[00:00:28]

They will stick to you as sin does[00:00:32]

While your money comes and goes[00:00:35]

But they'll leave you when you haven't[00:00:38]

Got a dollar in your clothes[00:00:40]

And you may get some help from others[00:00:43]

But you'll nearly always find[00:00:46]

That you cannot get assistance[00:00:49]

From the men who come behind[00:00:52]

There are many far too many[00:00:56]

In this world of prose and rhyme[00:00:59]

Always looking for another's[00:01:02]

Footprints on the sands of time[00:01:05]

Journalistic imitators[00:01:08]

Are the meanest of mankind[00:01:11]

And the grandest themes are hackneyed[00:01:14]

By the pens that come behind[00:01:16]

If you strike a novel subject[00:01:45]

Write it up and do not fail[00:01:48]

They will rhyme and prose about it[00:01:51]

Till your very own is stale[00:01:54]

As they raved about the bushland[00:01:57]

That the wattle boughs perfume[00:02:00]

Till the reader cursed that region[00:02:03]

And the stink of wattle bloom[00:02:05]

They will follow in your footsteps[00:02:09]

While you're groping for the light[00:02:13]

But they'll run to get before you[00:02:15]

When they see you're going right[00:02:18]

And they'll trip you up and baulk you[00:02:21]

In their blind and greedy heat[00:02:24]

Like a stupid pup hat hasn't[00:02:27]

Learned to trail behind your feet[00:02:29]

So take your loads of sin and sorrow[00:02:33]

On an energetic back[00:02:37]

Go and strike across the country[00:02:40]

Where there isn't any track[00:02:42]

And I fancy that the subject[00:02:45]

Could be further treated here[00:02:48]

But we'll leave it to be hackneyed[00:02:51]

By the fellows in the rear[00:02:54]

Oh there are many far too many[00:02:57]

In this world of prose and rhyme[00:03:01]

Always looking for another's[00:03:04]

Footsteps on the sands of time[00:03:06]

Journalistic imitators[00:03:10]

Are the meanest of mankind[00:03:12]

And the grandest themes are hackneyed[00:03:15]

By the pens that come behind[00:03:18]