《From The Gulf To Adelaide(1996 Digital Remaster)》歌词

歌曲： From The Gulf To Adelaide(1996 Digital Remaster)

所属专辑：Tall Stories And Sad Songs

歌手： Slim Dusty

时长： 04:04

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From The Gulf To Adelaide (1996 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提)[00:00:00]

No doubt you've heard of droning trips across the murrain[00:00:07]

And how they brought the[00:00:13]

Bullocks down in the good old days gone bye[00:00:14]

But the greatest droning episode that any man has made[00:00:18]

Was 30 000 crocodiles from the gulf to Adelaide[00:00:24]

Oh I never saw the likes of them that mob of crocodiles[00:00:30]

Thirty footers every one strung out for thirty miles[00:00:36]

Three days it took to start'em off three days to straighten em up[00:00:41]

Three days we travelled southward three days to block'em up[00:00:47]

They were long and mean and[00:00:58]

Cranky they had teeth like cross cut saws[00:00:59]

When passing though some timber just to exercise their jaws[00:01:03]

They churned out hardwood posts one foot through by seven tall[00:01:09]

All stacked up by the stock route barked an' sapped an' all[00:01:15]

Oh they had a normal appetite as lizards really should[00:01:21]

And everything in hair or hide was considered very good[00:01:27]

The first day out from normanton we missed the jackaroo[00:01:32]

But then blow me down the[00:01:38]

Horses went an' the old blue healer too[00:01:39]

And the last we saw of gonna bob horse tailor of repute[00:01:48]

He was heading toward the rabbit proof with a big croc in pursuit[00:01:54]

When drifting down the Flanders they cracked on a bit of pace[00:02:00]

Oh they took a mob of bullocks and never left a trace[00:02:06]

Oh I've been up and down these[00:02:11]

Stock routes now for 20 years or more[00:02:13]

But I've never seen a travelling mob the likes of this before[00:02:17]

By salt bush plains and gidgee rise downlow the old Georgina[00:02:23]

The snapped an' snarled and[00:02:28]

Pawed all day they were slowly getting meaner[00:02:30]

They didn't like the spinifex a tickling their ol hides[00:02:39]

And with water getting far apart the tears came to their eyes[00:02:44]

Now you've heard of crocodile[00:02:50]

Tears but you wouldn't know the meaning[00:02:52]

Oh with 30 000 shedding tears oh seeing is believing[00:02:56]

There was water in the gullies there was water in the creeks[00:03:02]

And the old Georgina river running belly deep for weeks[00:03:07]

For it was our great salvation for upon that flood of tears[00:03:13]

We sailed'em down past lake Eyre on the biggest flood for years[00:03:19]

A short step then to Adelaide and delivery right on time[00:03:29]

The agent came to meet us and[00:03:35]

Here's the ending of this rhyme[00:03:37]

For he said you'll have to turn em[00:03:41]

Around and take them back again[00:03:43]

For the fashion now in ladies shoes is[00:03:46]

Imitation crocodile with the courser grain[00:03:50]