《From The Gulf To Adelaide(1996 Digital Remaster)》歌词

[00:00:00] From The Gulf To Adelaide (1996 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提)

[00:00:07] No doubt you've heard of droning trips across the murrain

[00:00:13] And how they brought the

[00:00:14] Bullocks down in the good old days gone bye

[00:00:18] But the greatest droning episode that any man has made

[00:00:24] Was 30 000 crocodiles from the gulf to Adelaide

[00:00:30] Oh I never saw the likes of them that mob of crocodiles

[00:00:36] Thirty footers every one strung out for thirty miles

[00:00:41] Three days it took to start'em off three days to straighten em up

[00:00:47] Three days we travelled southward three days to block'em up

[00:00:58] They were long and mean and

[00:00:59] Cranky they had teeth like cross cut saws

[00:01:03] When passing though some timber just to exercise their jaws

[00:01:09] They churned out hardwood posts one foot through by seven tall

[00:01:15] All stacked up by the stock route barked an' sapped an' all

[00:01:21] Oh they had a normal appetite as lizards really should

[00:01:27] And everything in hair or hide was considered very good

[00:01:32] The first day out from normanton we missed the jackaroo

[00:01:38] But then blow me down the

[00:01:39] Horses went an' the old blue healer too

[00:01:48] And the last we saw of gonna bob horse tailor of repute

[00:01:54] He was heading toward the rabbit proof with a big croc in pursuit

[00:02:00] When drifting down the Flanders they cracked on a bit of pace

[00:02:06] Oh they took a mob of bullocks and never left a trace

[00:02:11] Oh I've been up and down these

[00:02:13] Stock routes now for 20 years or more

[00:02:17] But I've never seen a travelling mob the likes of this before

[00:02:23] By salt bush plains and gidgee rise downlow the old Georgina

[00:02:28] The snapped an' snarled and

[00:02:30] Pawed all day they were slowly getting meaner

[00:02:39] They didn't like the spinifex a tickling their ol hides

[00:02:44] And with water getting far apart the tears came to their eyes

[00:02:50] Now you've heard of crocodile

[00:02:52] Tears but you wouldn't know the meaning

[00:02:56] Oh with 30 000 shedding tears oh seeing is believing

[00:03:02] There was water in the gullies there was water in the creeks

[00:03:07] And the old Georgina river running belly deep for weeks

[00:03:13] For it was our great salvation for upon that flood of tears

[00:03:19] We sailed'em down past lake Eyre on the biggest flood for years

[00:03:29] A short step then to Adelaide and delivery right on time

[00:03:35] The agent came to meet us and

[00:03:37] Here's the ending of this rhyme

[00:03:41] For he said you'll have to turn em

[00:03:43] Around and take them back again

[00:03:46] For the fashion now in ladies shoes is

[00:03:50] Imitation crocodile with the courser grain