Along The Road Of Song - 2004 Digital Remaster

[00:00.95] 'Neath the gum trees by the roadway
[00:07.69] As the sun went down outback
[00:10.62] I lay at rest in peaceful reverie
[00:15.76] Then I thought of all the songs I'd sung
[00:18.77] About the outside track
[00:21.15] And that is how this vision came to me
[00:26.46] As I dozed there in the shadows
[00:28.90] 'Neath the gum trees by the road
[00:32.17] I heard an angel singing there on high
[00:37.33] Just welcomed into heaven
[00:39.90] Was a soldier and his dog
[00:42.57] Never more would he and Rusty say goodbye
[00:47.95] Then along the road came Farmer Gray
[00:50.62] With his dancing Jersey cow
[00:53.00] But you'd never know this famous pair
[00:56.05] They've gone all high-brown now
[00:58.31] But their harvest days are over
[01:01.47] Sad it is to say
[01:03.61] But they're making much more money
[01:05.97] Since the boogie came their way
[01:10.57]
[01:12.78] And the swaggie who liked good backy
[01:15.49] Was smoking a big cigar
[01:18.28] And bragging about the fights he'd had in town
[01:23.20] Then the ghost of old King Bundawal
[01:25.93] With a wild old tribal yell
[01:28.81] Hit him on the head with a killer boomerang
[01:33.91] Frankie and Johnny next came by
[01:36.68] Fighting the way they do
[01:38.80] She said "Johnny man, you've been making eyes
[01:41.45] At that little girl dressed in blue"
[01:44.25] He said "I know I've done you wrong
[01:46.85] Been doing so for years
[01:49.35] And the road I travel now
[01:51.38] Is down that lonesome road of tears"
[01:57.22] Then along came Farmer Wilson
[01:59.72] Dressed in a bathing suit
[02:02.53] A lifebelt hanging 'round his neck
[02:04.98] And a flipper on each boot
[02:07.53] He says "Well things ain't been the same
[02:10.00] Since a distant day gone by
[02:12.52] When a certain character wrote a song
[02:15.03] About the wet month of July"
[02:18.78] So I says to Farmer Wilson
[02:21.17] "Do you reckon I'm to blame?"
[02:24.05] His eyes went wild and his whiskers shook
[02:26.59] And his face went red as flame
[02:28.63] "Yes, you're the bloke that wrote the song
[02:31.57] That's made my farmer see
[02:34.06] And they're catching fish with spinners now
[02:36.55] Where my cowyard used to be"
[02:40.23] 'Neath the gum trees by the roadway
[02:42.96] As the sun goes down outback
[02:45.74] I lay at rest in peaceful reverie
[02:50.50] Then I thought of all the songs I'd sung
[02:53.76] About the outside track
[02:55.97] And that is how this vision came to me
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