《Dinkum Bushman’s Hands》歌词

[00:00:00] Dinkum Bushman's Hands - Slim Dusty

[00:00:10] The fingers are cracked and twisted

[00:00:13] The nails are black an' torn

[00:00:17] The backs are sunburnt to leather

[00:00:20] The palms are calloused and worn

[00:00:24] They're bent to the shape of an old horse shoe

[00:00:28] They're rope burned scarred and tanned

[00:00:31] But there's true strength in the hand shake

[00:00:35] Of a dinkum bushman's hands

[00:00:40] You'll see them curled 'round a glass

[00:00:44] Or swingin' in the midst of a fight

[00:00:47] Or frozen blue on the night watch

[00:00:51] On a long cold winter's night

[00:00:55] But don't think they are unfeeling

[00:00:58] They're not only rough and hard

[00:01:02] Oh just watch the gentle way they work

[00:01:05] Handling a colt in the yard

[00:01:14] They'll grip like a blue heeler's jaws

[00:01:18] Impossible almost to shake free

[00:01:21] But I've seen them pick up a tiger snake

[00:01:25] And crack it against a tree

[00:01:29] And they can hang on through the hard times

[00:01:32] To life in the back barren land

[00:01:36] Oh but money has a way of slippin' through

[00:01:40] A dinkum bushman's hands

[00:01:45] The fingers are cracked and twisted

[00:01:49] The nails are black an' torn

[00:01:52] The backs are sunburnt to leather

[00:01:56] The palms are calloused and worn

[00:01:59] They're bent to the shape of an old horse shoe

[00:02:03] They're rope burned scarred and tanned

[00:02:06] But there's true strength in the hand shake

[00:02:10] Of a dinkum bushman's hands

[00:02:16] Have you noticed the hands of a desk man

[00:02:19] They're more like a woman's to me

[00:02:23] Sheltered from wind and the blazing sun

[00:02:26] In an office down by the sea

[00:02:30] I don't think they'll leave a big imprint

[00:02:34] In the shapin' of this old land

[00:02:37] I Like to think that more will be done

[00:02:41] By our dinkum bushman's hands

[00:02:44] The fingers are cracked and twisted

[00:02:48] The nails are black an' torn

[00:02:51] The backs are sunburnt to leather

[00:02:55] The palms are calloused and worn

[00:02:58] They're bent to the shape of an old horse shoe

[00:03:02] They're rope burned scarred and tanned

[00:03:05] But there's true strength in the hand shake

[00:03:09] Of a dinkum bushman's hands

[00:03:13] Dinkum bushman's hands