《Mad Jack’s Cockatoo》歌词

[00:02:37] Mad Jack's Cockatoo (1997 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty

[00:02:37] There's a man that went out in the flood time and drought

[00:02:37] By the banks of the outer Barcoo

[00:02:37] They called him "Mad Jack" 'cos the swag on his back

[00:02:37] Was the perch for an old cockatoo

[00:02:37] By towns near and far and shed shanty and bar

[00:02:37] Came the arms of Mad Jack and his bird

[00:02:37] And this tale I relate it was told by a mate

[00:02:37] Is just one of the many I've heard

[00:02:37] Now Jack was a bloke who could drink holy smoke

[00:02:37] He could swig twenty pots to my ten

[00:02:37] And that old cockatoo it could sink quite a few

[00:02:37] And it drank with the rest of the men

[00:02:37] One day when the heat was a thing hard to beat

[00:02:37] Mad Jack and his old cockatoo

[00:02:37] Came in from the west to the old "Swagman's Rest"

[00:02:37] And they ordered schooners for two

[00:02:37] When these had gone down he pulled out half a crown

[00:02:37] And they drank 'til their money was spent

[00:02:37] Then he pulled out a note from his old tattered old coat

[00:02:37] And between them they drank every cent

[00:02:37] Then that old cockatoo it swore red black and blue

[00:02:37] And it knocked all the mugs off the bar

[00:02:37] Then it flew through the air and it pulled at the hair

[00:02:37] Of a chap who was drinking "Three Star"

[00:02:37] And it jerked out the pegs from the barrels and kegs

[00:02:37] Knocked the bottles all down from the shelf

[00:02:37] With a sound like a cheer it dived into the beer

[00:02:37] And it finished up drowning itself

[00:02:37] When poor Jack awoke not a word then was spoke

[00:02:37] But he cried like a lost husband's wife

[00:02:37] And each falling tear made a flood with the beer

[00:02:37] And the men had to swim for their life

[00:02:37] Now poor Jack was drowned and when finally found

[00:02:37] He was lying there stiffened and blue

[00:02:37] And it's told far and wide that stretched out by his side

[00:02:37] Was his track mate the old cockatoo