《Clean Up Our Own Backyard》歌词

[00:00:01] Clean Up Our Own Backyard - Slim Dusty

[00:00:09] There's an old rhyme that pits

[00:00:11] Out time take it for what it's worth

[00:00:15] Things are crook at Tallarook

[00:00:17] And there ain't no work in Burke

[00:00:20] But we still find room for the many

[00:00:22] Who come a-knockin' at our door

[00:00:25] And we sell our wide brown

[00:00:27] Acres without a second thought

[00:00:31] Some will say we are building

[00:00:34] A nation rich and strong

[00:00:36] But if you take a closer look at

[00:00:39] It perhaps we've got it wrong

[00:00:43] Makes you think maybe we're

[00:00:45] A bit crazy doing it quite so hard

[00:00:48] Shouldn't be a crime to take the time

[00:00:51] To clean up our own backyard

[00:01:04] In the country towns and the land around

[00:01:06] In the city streets and slums

[00:01:09] The dreamtime lore has gone before

[00:01:12] And the walkabout is done

[00:01:14] On the streets at night you see

[00:01:16] The plight of our old ones and our young

[00:01:19] And the Salvo refugge overflows

[00:01:22] But still the people come

[00:01:25] Just a little drop of caring in

[00:01:28] An ocean of neglect

[00:01:31] Can't stem the tide of anger from

[00:01:34] The lost and dispossessed

[00:01:37] In the land of promise keepin'

[00:01:39] Our promise gets to be too hard

[00:01:42] Shouldn't be a crime to take the time

[00:01:45] To clean up our own backyard

[00:01:58] Make you think maybe we're

[00:02:00] A bit crazy doing it quite so hard

[00:02:04] Shouldn't be a crime to take the time

[00:02:07] To clean up our own backyard