《Ballads of the Bush: Mulga Bill’s Bicycle》歌词

歌曲： Ballads of the Bush: Mulga Bill’s Bicycle

所属专辑：Gavin Lockley: Symphony of Australia， Ballads of the Bush

歌手： Jon English&Gavin Lockley

时长： 02:58

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2. Mulga Bill's Bicycle - Sydney Symphony Orchestra (悉尼交响乐团)/Gavin Lockley/Sharolyn Kimmorley/Paul Laszlo[00:00:00]

Written by：Gavin Lockley/Banjo Patterson[00:00:02]

'Twas Mulga Bill from Eaglehawk that caught the cycling craze[00:00:04]

He turned away the good old horse that served him many days[00:00:08]

He dressed himself in cycling clothes resplendent to be seen[00:00:12]

He hurried off to town and bought a shining new machine[00:00:16]

And as he wheeled it through the door with air of lordly pride[00:00:20]

The grinning shop assistant said excuse me can you ride[00:00:24]

See here young man said Mulga Bill from Walgett to the sea[00:00:29]

From Conroy's Gap to Castlereagh there's none can ride like me[00:00:33]

I'm good all round at everything as everybody knows[00:00:37]

Although I'm not the one to talk I hate a man that blows[00:00:41]

But riding is my special gift my chiefest sole delight[00:00:45]

Just ask a wild duck can it swim a wildcat can it fight[00:00:49]

There's nothing clothed in hair or hide or built of flesh or steel[00:00:53]

There's nothing walks or jumps or runs on axle hoof or wheel[00:00:57]

But what I'll sit while hide will hold and girths and straps are tight[00:01:01]

I'll ride this here two wheeled concern right straight away at sight[00:01:05]

'Twas Mulga Bill from Eaglehawk that sought his own abode[00:01:10]

That perched above Dead Man's Creek beside the mountain road[00:01:14]

He turned the cycle down the hill and mounted for the fray[00:01:18]

But 'ere he'd gone a dozen yards it bolted clean away[00:01:22]

It left the track and through the trees just like a silver steak[00:01:28]

It whistled down the awful slope towards the Dead Man's Creek[00:01:32]

It shaved a stump by half an inch it dodged a big white-box[00:01:36]

The very wallaroos in fright went scrambling up the rocks[00:01:40]

The wombats hiding in their caves dug deeper underground[00:01:44]

As Mulga Bill as white as chalk sat tight to every bound[00:01:48]

It struck a stone and gave a spring that cleared a fallen tree[00:01:52]

It raced beside a precipice as close as close could be[00:01:57]

And then as Mulga Bill let out one last despairing shriek[00:02:00]

It made a leap of twenty feet into the Dean Man's Creek[00:02:04]

'Twas Mulga Bill from Eaglehawk that slowly swam ashore[00:02:12]

He said I've had some narrer shaves and lively rides before[00:02:17]

I've rode a wild bull round a yard to win a five-pound bet[00:02:21]

But this was the most awful ride that I've encountered yet[00:02:25]

I'll give that two-wheeled outlaw best it's shaken all my nerve[00:02:29]

To feel it whistle through the air and plunge and buck and swerve[00:02:33]

It's safe at rest in Dead Man's Creek we'll leave it lying still[00:02:38]

A horse's back is good enough henceforth for Mulga Bill[00:02:42]