所属专辑:Gavin Lockley’s Orchestral Songs Of Australia
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Mulga Bill's Bicycle - Michael Halliwell/Tom Ferris/Rum Corps Orchestra/Brett Weymark[00:00:00]
'Twas Mulga Bill from Eaglehawk that caught the cycling craze[00:00:07]
He turned away the good old horse that served him many days[00:00:11]
He dressed himself in cycling clothes resplendent to be seen[00:00:15]
He hurried off to town and bought a shining new machine[00:00:19]
And as he wheeled it through the door with air of lordly pride[00:00:23]
The grinning shop assistant said [00:00:27]
Excuse me can you ride[00:00:29]
See here young man said Mulga Bill from Walgett to the sea[00:00:31]
From Conroy's Gap to Castlereagh there's none can ride like me[00:00:35]
I'm good all round at everything as everybody knows[00:00:39]
Although I'm not the one to talk I hate a man that blows[00:00:44]
But riding is my special gift my chiefest sole delight[00:00:47]
Just ask a wild duck can it swim a wildcat can it fight[00:00:52]
There's nothing clothed in hair or hide or built of flesh or steel[00:00:56]
There's nothing walks or jumps or runs on axle hoof or wheel[00:01:00]
But what I'll sit while hide will hold and girths and straps are tight[00:01:04]
I'll ride this here two-wheeled concern right straight away at sight[00:01:08]
'Twas Mulga Bill from Eaglehawk that sought his own abode[00:01:13]
That perched above the Dead Man's Creek beside the mountain road[00:01:17]
He turned the cycle down the hill and mounted for the fray[00:01:21]
But 'ere he'd gone a dozen yards it bolted clean away[00:01:25]
It left the track and through the trees just like a silver steak[00:01:31]
It whistled down the awful slope towards the Dead Man's Creek[00:01:35]
It shaved a stump by half an inch it dodged a big white-box[00:01:39]
The very wallaroos in fright went scrambling up the rocks[00:01:43]
The wombats hiding in their caves dug deeper underground[00:01:47]
As Mulga Bill as white as chalk sat tight to every bound[00:01:51]
It struck a stone and gave a spring that cleared a fallen tree[00:01:55]
It raced beside a precipice as close as close could be[00:01:59]
And then as Mulga Bill let out one last despairing shriek[00:02:03]
It made a leap of twenty feet into the Dean Man's Creek[00:02:07]
'Twas Mulga Bill from Eaglehawk that slowly swam ashore[00:02:16]
He said I've had some narrer shaves and lively rides before[00:02:21]
I've rode a wild bull round a yard to win a five-pound bet[00:02:27]
But this was the most awful ride that I've encountered yet[00:02:34]
I'll give that two-wheeled outlaw best it's shaken all my nerve[00:02:40]
To feel it whistle through the air and plunge and buck and swerve[00:02:46]
It's safe at rest in Dead Man's Creek we'll leave it lying still[00:02:53]
A horse's back is good enough henceforth for Mulga Bill[00:03:00]