《Men Who Come Behind(Remaster 1996)》歌词

[00:00:00] Men Who Come Behind - Slim Dusty

[00:00:01] Written by：Slim Dusty/Henry Lawson

[00:00:08] There's a class of men and women

[00:00:11] Who are always on their guard

[00:00:14] Cunning treacherous suspicious

[00:00:16] Feeling softly grasping hard

[00:00:20] Yet without the courage

[00:00:22] To forsake the beaten track

[00:00:25] Wearily they feel their way behind

[00:00:28] A bolder spirit's back

[00:00:32] They will stick to you as sin does

[00:00:35] While your money comes and goes

[00:00:38] But they'll leave you when you haven't

[00:00:40] Got a dollar in your clothes

[00:00:43] And you may get some help from others

[00:00:46] But you'll nearly always find

[00:00:49] That you cannot get assistance

[00:00:52] From the men who come behind

[00:00:56] There are many far too many

[00:00:59] In this world of prose and rhyme

[00:01:02] Always looking for another's

[00:01:05] Footprints on the sands of time

[00:01:08] Journalistic imitators

[00:01:11] Are the meanest of mankind

[00:01:14] And the grandest themes are hackneyed

[00:01:16] By the pens that come behind

[00:01:45] If you strike a novel subject

[00:01:48] Write it up and do not fail

[00:01:51] They will rhyme and prose about it

[00:01:54] Till your very own is stale

[00:01:57] As they raved about the bushland

[00:02:00] That the wattle boughs perfume

[00:02:03] Till the reader cursed that region

[00:02:05] And the stink of wattle bloom

[00:02:09] They will follow in your footsteps

[00:02:13] While you're groping for the light

[00:02:15] But they'll run to get before you

[00:02:18] When they see you're going right

[00:02:21] And they'll trip you up and baulk you

[00:02:24] In their blind and greedy heat

[00:02:27] Like a stupid pup hat hasn't

[00:02:29] Learned to trail behind your feet

[00:02:33] So take your loads of sin and sorrow

[00:02:37] On an energetic back

[00:02:40] Go and strike across the country

[00:02:42] Where there isn't any track

[00:02:45] And I fancy that the subject

[00:02:48] Could be further treated here

[00:02:51] But we'll leave it to be hackneyed

[00:02:54] By the fellows in the rear

[00:02:57] Oh there are many far too many

[00:03:01] In this world of prose and rhyme

[00:03:04] Always looking for another's

[00:03:06] Footsteps on the sands of time

[00:03:10] Journalistic imitators

[00:03:12] Are the meanest of mankind

[00:03:15] And the grandest themes are hackneyed

[00:03:18] By the pens that come behind