《Sweeney(2004 Remaster)》歌词

[00:00:00] Sweeney (2004 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提)

[00:00:03] It was somewhere in September

[00:00:05] And the sun was goin＇ down

[00:00:08] When I came in search of coffee

[00:00:11] To a Darling River town

[00:00:15] Come-And-Have-A-Drink

[00:00:16] We＇ll call it ＇tis a fitting name I think

[00:00:20] And ＇twas raining for a wonder

[00:00:23] Up at Come-And-Have-A-Drink

[00:00:27] Underneath the pub verandah

[00:00:30] I was resting on a bunk

[00:00:33] When a stranger rose before me

[00:00:35] And he said that he was drunk

[00:00:39] He apologised for speaking

[00:00:42] There was no offence he swore

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:00] People lived in Sussex Street

[00:01:04] He was camping in a stable

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

[00:01:09] Only for the blanky horses

[00:01:11] Walkin＇ over him all night

[00:01:16] He＇d apparently been fighting

[00:01:19] For his face was black and blue

[00:01:21] And it looked as though

[00:01:23] The horses had been treading on him too

[00:01:28] But an honest genial twinkle

[00:01:31] In the eye that wasn＇t hurt

[00:01:33] Seemed to hint of something better

[00:01:36] Spite of drink and rags and dirt

[00:01:40] He was born in Parramatta

[00:01:42] And he said with humour grim

[00:01:45] That he＇d like to see the city

[00:01:48] ＇ere the liquor finished him

[00:01:52] 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

[00:02:04] I declined ＇twas self-denial

[00:02:07] And I lectured him on booze

[00:02:10] Using all the hackneyed arguments

[00:02:12] That preachers mostly use

[00:02:16] Things I＇d heard in temperance lectures

[00:02:19] I was young and rather green

[00:02:22] And I ended

[00:02:23] By referring to the man he might have been

[00:02:28] But he couldn＇t stay to argue

[00:02:31] For his beer was nearly gone

[00:02:33] He was glad he said to meet me

[00:02:36] And he＇d see me later on

[00:02:40] But he guessed he＇d have to go

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

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

[00:02:47] And vanished in the darkness and the rain

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

[00:02:56] When the rain is on the land

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

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