《The Battle With The Roan(1996 Digital Remaster)》歌词

[00:00:00] The Battle With The Roan - Slim Dusty

[00:00:05] I come ridin' down the Barwon with my saddle and my swag

[00:00:09] Strapped across the bony framework of a long backed chestnut nag

[00:00:15] I was headin' for a station on the stockroute west of Bourke

[00:00:20] To tangle with an outlaw horse well known in campfire talk

[00:00:26] When I rode down to the stockyard where they said I'd find the boss

[00:00:31] Standing just inside I saw the big roan outlaw horse

[00:00:37] He was just the kind of horseflesh a ringer dreams about

[00:00:42] Game eye and good strong shoulders and front legs well spaced out

[00:00:49] I said now boss is that the horse the ringers rave about

[00:00:54] I've heard of him at Camooweal and even further out

[00:01:00] Yes he's been tried by desert men and riders from the gulf

[00:01:04] He said I'd give my station to the man that calls his bluff

[00:01:10] And as I strapped the bridle on that proud and shapely head

[00:01:15] I pictured me as owner of his big merino spread

[00:01:21] I threw my Schneider poley on and tightened up the girth

[00:01:26] And as I stepped astride him the big horse left this earth

[00:01:32] He left the ground in one tight ball as solid as a stone

[00:01:37] And all that I could see around was one big blur of roan

[00:01:43] I hit him with my goosenecks around the shoulder points

[00:01:47] He twisted like a reptile that had a million joints

[00:01:53] He dropped his shoulders way down low and chopped out to the right

[00:01:58] He started striking at the bit each time the spurs did bite

[00:02:04] I thought I felt him weaken so I voiced a victory yell

[00:02:09] What happened then I only know for those who saw it tell

[00:02:16] So I rode way from the station with my saddle and my swag

[00:02:21] Strapped across the bony framework of the same old chestnut nag

[00:02:27] And just as I was leaving he whinnied loud and shrill

[00:02:32] And even after all these years I fancy I hear him still

[00:02:38] They still tell yarns about him around the campfire blaze

[00:02:43] Of the noted riders that he's thrown so many different ways

[00:02:49] And while I'm taking night watch on a cattle camp alone

[00:02:53] I try to figure how I lost the battle with the roan