《The Clearing Sale(1992 - Remaster)》歌词

[00:00:01] The Clearing Sale (1992 - Remaster) - Slim Dusty

[00:00:07] Have you ever stopped to linger when a clearing sale is done

[00:00:13] And the warmth of that old homestead seems to vanish with the sun

[00:00:20] All the bidders have their bargains and the auctioneer is paid

[00:00:26] And the twilight wraps the old home in its dreams of yesterday

[00:00:35] The gate is swinging open as I take the lonely path

[00:00:41] No welcome lights the window no cheery blaze to warm the hearth

[00:00:47] And I feel like an intruder as though I walk on sacred ground

[00:00:54] Only silence comes to greet me for the shadows make no sound

[00:01:05] There's a rocker in a corner but it won't rock no more

[00:01:12] There's a lucky horseshoe hanging still on a nail above the door

[00:01:20] I step upon a child's toy hell a broken tip truck red and blue

[00:01:27] Oh I seem to hear a child laugh maybe you can hear it too

[00:01:34] I see my own reflection in a mirror on the wall

[00:01:40] And a picture of a horse team lies forgotten in the hall

[00:01:49] Just a few things no one bid for and now they're set aside at last

[00:01:55] Like the memories of the homestead now they'll slip into the past

[00:02:03] I wonder how the old man felt to see his tractor go

[00:02:09] And it must have hurt the old wife though she'd never let it show

[00:02:17] To see the things she had a lifetime now pass into other hands

[00:02:23] No a clearing sales' not easy friends when it's time to leave the land

[00:02:31] Just a few discarded relics of the days that used to be

[00:02:38] And I leave them as I found them for what could they mean to me

[00:02:44] Now the night is on the old house and the starlight softly gleams

[00:02:50] As I close the gate behind me and leave the homestead with its dreams