《Clancy Of The Overflow》歌词

歌曲： Clancy Of The Overflow

所属专辑：True Believers

歌手： John Schumann

时长： 04:52

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Clancy Of The Overflow - John Schumann[00:00:00]

I had written him a letter which I had[00:00:17]

For want of better[00:00:21]

Knowledge sent to where[00:00:23]

I met him down the Lachlan years ago[00:00:25]

He was shearing when I knew him[00:00:31]

So I sent the letter to him[00:00:33]

Just on spec addressed as follows[00:00:36]

Clancy of the overflow[00:00:39]

And an answer came directed[00:00:44]

In a writing unexpected[00:00:47]

And I think the same was written[00:00:49]

With a thumbnail dipped in tar[00:00:53]

His shearing mate who wrote[00:00:57]

Verbatim I will quote it[00:01:00]

Clancy's gone to queensland droving[00:01:03]

And we don't know where he are[00:01:06]

In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of clancy[00:01:10]

Gone a droving down the cooper[00:01:16]

Where the western drovers go[00:01:19]

As the stock are slowly stringing[00:01:24]

Clancy rides behind them singing[00:01:26]

For the drover's life has pleasures[00:01:29]

That the townsfolk never know[00:01:32]

And the bush hath friends to meet him[00:01:40]

And their kindly voices greet him[00:01:43]

In the murmur of the breezes[00:01:46]

And the river on it's bars[00:01:49]

And he sees the vision splendid[00:01:53]

Of the sunlit plains extended[00:01:56]

And at night the wondrous glory[00:01:59]

Of the everlasting stars[00:02:02]

I am sitting in my dingy little office where a stingy[00:02:24]

Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down[00:02:29]

Between the houses tall[00:02:33]

And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty dirty city[00:02:37]

Through the open window floating[00:02:43]

Spreads it's foulness over all[00:02:46]

And in place of lowing cattle[00:02:50]

I can hear the fiendish rattle[00:02:53]

Of the tramways and the buses[00:02:56]

Making hurry down the street[00:02:59]

And the language uninviting[00:03:04]

Of the gutter children fighting[00:03:07]

Comes fitfully and faintly[00:03:10]

Through the ceaseless tramp of feet[00:03:13]

And the hurrying people daunt me[00:03:20]

Their pallid faces haunt me[00:03:23]

As they shoulder one another[00:03:26]

In their rush and nervous haste[00:03:29]

With their eager eyes and greedy[00:03:33]

Their stunted forms and weedy[00:03:36]

Townsfolk have no time to grow[00:03:39]

Have no time to waste[00:03:42]

And I'd somehow rather fancy[00:03:49]

That I'd like to change with clancy[00:03:52]

The take turn at droving[00:03:56]

Where the seasons come and go[00:03:58]

While he faced the round eternal[00:04:03]

Of the cashbook and the journal[00:04:05]

Yeah I'd doubt he'd suit the office[00:04:08]

Clancy of the overflow[00:04:11]