《Up The Old Nulla Road》歌词

[00:00:00] UP THE OLD NULLA ROAD

[00:00:05] The old days were good when we lived in the bush

[00:00:08] And worked pretty hard everyday

[00:00:11] We never felt lonely and always felt free

[00:00:15] Away from the world and its ways

[00:00:18] We lived off the land and the bush was our friend

[00:00:22] Everyone shared their life and its load

[00:00:26] There was no television and the wireless was new

[00:00:31] When we lived up the old Nulla road

[00:00:34] I rode to school three or four miles

[00:00:38] There was twenty odd kids counting me

[00:00:41] Our teacher was known as old Johnny Knight

[00:00:45] His mole looked like Hitler’s to me

[00:00:49] They taught English history but little of our own

[00:00:53] The empire was then very strong

[00:00:56] But we were a bunch of wild brumbies at school

[00:00:59] It was there I first sung my first song

[00:01:05] They held their bush dances at somebody’s place

[00:01:08] I’d say about every two weeks

[00:01:12] Presentations were done and bush ballads were sung

[00:01:16] At the dances they held up the creek

[00:01:19] There was old Billy Kyle and his bush fiddle style

[00:01:23] And he was a band on his own

[00:01:26] And the dancers stayed on till the crack of the dawn

[00:01:30] Then a jackass would laugh them all home

[00:01:50] Fiddle Solo

[00:01:50] I remember one dance it was only by chance

[00:01:53] Us kids found some beer in a stump

[00:01:57] And mother was not real impressed when they said

[00:02:00] “your sons outside getting drunk”

[00:02:05] The best time was tea when the baskets came out

[00:02:08] And all those fresh cakes to behold

[00:02:11] The old men sipped their tea and then sucked on their pipes

[00:02:16] When we lived up the old Nulla road

[00:02:21] There were Dunbars and Kyles and Ryans and Miles

[00:02:24] Neighbours as solid as stone

[00:02:28] Though I’ve been away now for many long years

[00:02:31] The valley is always my home

[00:02:35] I’ve always remembered that big mountain moon

[00:02:38] Hung over the trees like a glow

[00:02:42] I went home in the moonlight content with the world

[00:02:47] When we lived up the old Nulla road

[00:02:50] In the bush when we lived up the old Nulla road