《Mad Jack’s Cockatoo(1997 Digital Remaster)》歌词

歌曲： Mad Jack’s Cockatoo(1997 Digital Remaster)

所属专辑：Land Of Lots Of Time

歌手： Slim Dusty

时长： 02:34

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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]