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Slim Dusty( David Gordon Kirkpatrick )
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Stringybark and Greenhide
Now the aeroplanes go screaming across the blue skies overhead And the big trucks cross the nation night and day While satellites bring TV to the homesteads in the bush And the limousines replace the horse and dray
But our pioneering fathers had no comforts such as these They faced hardship with their women by their side With no wire or nails to help them in the vastness of the bush They built stockyards out of lancewood and greenhide
And the cattle walked to market on the stock routes of the west And a man was judged by the way he used to ride And the Afghans with their camels were the road trains of the bush They built a nation out of stringy and greenhide Hey
And with stringybark and mud daub they built the old bark hut And the shantys on the roadside by the way Oh they cleared the land and felled the trees with crosscut and the axe And with greenhide whip the bullocky held sway
Oh they took their mobs of cattle and their spreading flocks of sheep Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com And no mountain range or desert held them back Oh the battled thirst and heat in their bid to tame this land And the silent watchful ever stalking black
And the cattle walked to market on the stock routes of the west And a man was judged by the way he used to ride And the Afghans with their camels were the road trains of the bush They built a nation out of stringy and greenhide Hey
When no barbed wire bound the wide domains of the western cattle runs And the men were as wild as the land they used to roam Oh the greenhide rope and bridle were the stockmen's tools of trade And a stringybark bush shelter was their home
And when fine young men rode walers off to fight their countries war And made history with their suffering and their pain Oh they wrote the name Australia in the headlines of the world Will this country ever see their likes again?
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