Cattle Camp Reverie - 1996 Digital Remaster; 1974 Version

[00:09.55] There's a rustle through the tree tops as the night wind softly sighs
[00:14.31] The cattle rest and the bushland is so still
[00:19.08] From the distance comes the jingle of the horses hobble chains
[00:25.71] As they graze the grass round about at will
[00:31.56] Then I gaze into the embers of my dying campfires glow
[00:37.28] And the pictures that I see there make me frown
[00:42.09] For they come along and taunt me what I might have been and done
[00:47.77] When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down
[00:54.40] I was once a horseman, a rider of renown
[01:08.83] Who loved it all the glamour and the glare
[01:14.52] The handshakes and the backslaps
[01:17.41] And the false friends that you meet
[01:20.38] But when the heart is young then everything seems fair
[01:26.00] A home of friendly neighbours with kiddies running round
[01:31.85] I threw away to wear a tinsel crown
[01:36.65] And they always come and taunt me as I sit alone at night
[01:42.55] When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down
[01:49.25] For as you grow older and must give the game away
[02:03.58] You're just a name that blazed awhile ago
[02:09.32] And the friends you've made have left you for another name that's new
[02:14.12] Then you take to droving cattle it's the only job you know
[02:21.83] Then by some lonely fireside you'll be dreaming all alone
[02:26.78] Whilst the boys are having fun they're back in town
[02:33.43] I know because I'm here tonight with a lifetime to regret
[02:38.20] When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down
[02:44.92] There's a rustle through the tree tops as the night wind softly sighs
[02:51.63] The old campfire has burned into the ground
[02:56.58] And my dreams have slowly drifted like the smoke into the trees
[03:02.57] When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down
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