《Happy Jack (1996 Digital Remaster)》歌词

[00:00:03] I once knew a feller a travelling mate not bad as fellers go

[00:00:08] He was happiest when he was miserable if ever that could be so

[00:00:13] He'd wake up every mornin' with the world upon his back

[00:00:18] And so for the want of a better name we called him Happy Jack

[00:00:24] If ever you travelled on outback tracks as most us sometimes do

[00:00:29] With anxious eyes on the petrol gauge in the hope it would see you through

[00:00:33] You're a 100 miles from nowhere and eighty still to go

[00:00:38] You'll hear his voice like the crack of doom The petrol's gettin' low

[00:00:55] And when you're out on the Black Soul flats

[00:00:57] And you know what some rain can do

[00:01:00] You hope for the best as you head for the west

[00:01:02] Then you whisper a prayer or two

[00:01:04] And just when you're halfway over and starting to breath again

[00:01:09] You say with sigh and a mournful eye I think we're in for rain

[00:01:15] And when on a long and lonely run with nothing in between

[00:01:20] The town you left is away in the past the next one a distant dream

[00:01:24] He'll prick up his ears and listen and then in accents low

[00:01:29] I don't like the noise she's makin' boss the diff's about to go

[00:01:46] When you've bumped over corrugations so deep you could bury a cow

[00:01:51] You say to yourself It's pretty bad but the worst must be over now

[00:01:55] Then he'll look at you with a woeful look and furrows on his brow

[00:02:00] The last fifty miles on the road they say is the worst in Australia now

[00:02:06] Oh I wonder where he is today this travelling mate I had

[00:02:11] Where ever he is it's safe to say That things are really bad

[00:02:15] If it's not the diff it's something else or the petrol's gettin' low

[00:02:20] It's pounds to peanuts and that's a bet something's about to go