《Mad Jack’s Cockatoo(2004 Remaster)》歌词

歌曲： Mad Jack’s Cockatoo(2004 Remaster)

所属专辑：People And Places

歌手： Slim Dusty & His Bushland

时长： 02:32

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Mad Jack's Cockatoo (1997 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty[00:00:00]

There's a man that went out, in the flood time and drought[00:00:04]

By the banks of the outer Barcoo,[00:00:08]

They called him "Mad Jack", 'cos the swag on his back,[00:00:12]

Was the perch for an old cockatoo.[00:00:16]

By towns near and far and shed, shanty and bar[00:00:20]

Came the arms of Mad Jack and his bird[00:00:24]

And this tale I relate, it was told by a mate[00:00:28]

Is just one of the many I've heard.[00:00:31]

Now Jack was a bloke who could drink, holy smoke![00:00:36]

He could swig twenty pots to my ten,[00:00:40]

And that old cockatoo it could sink quite a few[00:00:43]

And it drank with the rest of the men.[00:00:47]

One day when the heat was a thing hard to beat,[00:00:51]

Mad Jack and his old cockatoo,[00:00:55]

Came in from the west to the old "Swagman's Rest"[00:00:59]

And they ordered schooners for two.[00:01:03]

When these had gone down he pulled out half a crown[00:01:07]

And they drank 'til their money was spent,[00:01:11]

Then he pulled out a note from his old tattered old coat,[00:01:15]

And between them they drank every cent.[00:01:19]

Then that old cockatoo it swore red, black and blue,[00:01:23]

And it knocked all the mugs off the bar,[00:01:27]

Then it flew through the air and it pulled at the hair[00:01:31]

Of a chap who was drinking "Three Star",[00:01:34]

And it jerked out the pegs from the barrels and kegs,[00:01:38]

Knocked the bottles all down from the shelf,[00:01:42]

With a sound like a cheer it dived into the beer[00:01:46]

And it finished up drowning itself.[00:01:50]

When poor Jack awoke not a word then was spoke,[00:01:54]

But he cried like a lost husband's wife,[00:01:58]

And each falling tear made a flood with the beer,[00:02:02]

And the men had to swim for their life,[00:02:05]

Now poor Jack was drowned and when finally found,[00:02:09]

He was lying there stiffened and blue,[00:02:13]

And it's told far and wide that stretched out by his side,[00:02:17]

Was his track mate ..... the old cockatoo.[00:02:21]