《Cattlemen From The High Plains》歌词

[00:00:00] Cattlemen From The High Plains - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提)

[00:00:13] You may talk of the ringer from Queensland,

[00:00:17] The big shearing gun from the west,

[00:00:21] They are men who have proven their value,

[00:00:25] Whenever they’re put to the test,

[00:00:28] But if you ever look to the mountains,

[00:00:32] And the south where it snows and it rains,

[00:00:36] Have you thought of the men from the Snowy,

[00:00:40] And the cattlemen from the high plains.

[00:00:44] From the high plains away above Dargo

[00:00:47] In the alps where the snow daisy grows.

[00:00:51] Where the wild mountain herds are grazin’

[00:00:55] Beneath the shadow of mountains of snow,

[00:00:58] Where the cattlemen searched every cranny,

[00:01:02] When they muster at each summer’s end,

[00:01:06] In their rain batter hats and their oil skins,

[00:01:10] From the high plains, come real cattlemen,

[00:01:13] They’re a part of Australia’s hist’ry,

[00:01:18] Their heritage all be the same,

[00:01:21] If nobody cares what is happn’nin’,

[00:01:25] To the cattlemen from the high plains.

[00:01:34] After one fifty years they can take it,

[00:01:38] All the hardship the mountains can give,

[00:01:42] They hand onto each generation,

[00:01:46] Their caring, their live and let live,

[00:01:50] All the steep mountain tracks and the gullies,

[00:01:53] Which one knows like the palm of his hand,

[00:01:57] There’s no room here for too many new chumps

[00:02:00] In the mountain cattleman’s land.

[00:02:05] So I guess that you’ll never believe me,

[00:02:08] When you hear what they’re plannin’ to do,

[00:02:12] Down in town, mate they’re writin’ the law now,

[00:02:15] That the man from the high plains must go,

[00:02:19] Take his herds from the mountains and ridges,

[00:02:23] Leave the land where his forefathers reigned,

[00:02:27] With the sweep of the pen they want to write out,

[00:02:30] The cattlemen from the high plains,

[00:02:34] And we lose a part of our hist’ry,

[00:02:38] Of our land built through struggle and strain,

[00:02:42] A bit more of our freedom goes with them,

[00:02:46] The cattlemen from the high plains,

[00:02:49] Just a bit more freedom goes with them,

[00:02:53] The cattlemen from the high plains.