《Sweeney(1998 Remaster)》歌词

歌曲： Sweeney(1998 Remaster)

所属专辑：The Very Best Of Slim Dusty (Remastered)

歌手： Slim Dusty

时长： 03:14

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Sweeney (1998 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty[00:00:01]

It was somewhere in September[00:00:05]

And the sun was going down[00:00:08]

When I came in search of coffee[00:00:10]

To a Darling River town[00:00:13]

Come And Have A Drink[00:00:17]

We'll call it is a fitting name I think[00:00:18]

And twas raining for a wonder[00:00:22]

Up at Come And Have A Drink[00:00:24]

Underneath the pub verandah[00:00:29]

I was resting on a bunk[00:00:31]

When a stranger rose before me[00:00:34]

And he said that he was drunk[00:00:36]

He apologised for speaking[00:00:40]

There was no offence he swore[00:00:43]

But he somehow seemed to fancy[00:00:45]

That he'd seen my face before[00:00:47]

He agreed you can't remember[00:00:52]

All the chaps you chance to meet[00:00:54]

And he said his name was Sweeney[00:00:57]

People lived in Sussex Street[00:00:59]

He was camping in a stable[00:01:03]

That he swore that he was right[00:01:06]

Only for the blanky horses[00:01:08]

Walking over him all night[00:01:11]

He'd apparently been fighting[00:01:15]

For his face was black and blue[00:01:18]

And it looked as though[00:01:20]

The horses had been treading on him too[00:01:21]

But an honest genial twinkle[00:01:27]

In the eye that wasn't hurt[00:01:29]

Seemed to hint of something better[00:01:31]

Spite of drink and rags and dirt[00:01:34]

He was born in Parramatta[00:01:43]

And he said with humour grim[00:01:46]

That he'd like to see the city[00:01:48]

Are the liquor finished him[00:01:51]

But he couldn't raise the money[00:01:55]

He was damned if he could think[00:01:57]

What the Government was doing here[00:02:00]

He offered me a drink[00:02:03]

I declined twas self denial[00:02:06]

And I lectured him on booze[00:02:09]

Using all the hackneyed arguments[00:02:11]

That preachers mostly use[00:02:14]

Things I'd heard in temperance lectures[00:02:18]

I was young and rather green[00:02:21]

And I ended[00:02:23]

By referring to the man he might have been[00:02:24]

But he couldn't stay to argue[00:02:30]

For his beer was nearly gone[00:02:32]

He was glad he said to meet me[00:02:35]

And he'd see me later on[00:02:37]

But he guessed he'd have to go[00:02:41]

And get his bottle filled again[00:02:43]

And he gave a lurch[00:02:46]

And vanished in the darkness and the rain[00:02:48]

Now of afternoons in cities[00:02:54]

When the rain is on the land[00:02:57]

Visions come to me of Sweeney[00:02:59]

With his bottle in his hand[00:03:02]