《To An Old Mate(1996 Digital Remaster)》歌词

[00:00:00] To An Old Mate - Slim Dusty

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

[00:00:07] Old mate in the gusty old weather

[00:00:11] When our hopes and our troubles were new

[00:00:15] In the years spent in wearing out leather

[00:00:18] I found you unselfish and true

[00:00:22] I have gathered these overseas together

[00:00:26] For the sake of our friendship and you

[00:00:29] You may think for a while and with reason

[00:00:33] Though still with a kindly regret

[00:00:36] That I've left it for late in the season

[00:00:40] To prove I remember you yet

[00:00:44] But you'll never judge me by their treason

[00:00:47] Who prop thy friends and forget

[00:01:00] I can still feel the spirit that bore us

[00:01:04] And often the old stars will shine

[00:01:07] I remember the last spree in corus

[00:01:11] For the sake of that other lang syne

[00:01:14] When the tracks lay divided before us

[00:01:18] Your path through the future and mine

[00:01:21] Through the frost wind that cuts like whip lashes

[00:01:25] Through the ever blind haze of the drought

[00:01:29] And in fancier times by the flashes

[00:01:32] Of light in the darkness of death

[00:01:36] I have followed the tent poles and ashes

[00:01:40] Of camps that we moved further out

[00:01:52] You will find in these pages a trace of

[00:01:56] That side of our past that was bright

[00:01:59] And recognize something the face of

[00:02:03] A friend who has dropped out of sight

[00:02:07] Oh I send them along in the place of

[00:02:10] The letters I promised to write yeah

[00:02:14] Old mate in the gusty old weather

[00:02:17] When our hopes and our troubles were new

[00:02:21] In the years spent in wearing out leather

[00:02:24] I found you unselfish and true

[00:02:28] I have gathered these overseas together

[00:02:32] For the sake of our friendship and you