《A Bushman’s Song》歌词

[00:00:01] 作词 : traditional

[00:00:07] i'm travellin' down the castlereagh, and i'm a station-hand

[00:00:11] i'm handy with the ropin' pole, i'm handy with the brand

[00:00:15] and i can ride a rowdy colt, or swing an axe all day

[00:00:19] but there's no demand for a station-hand along the castlereagh

[00:00:23] so it's shift, boys, shift, for there isn't the slightest doubt

[00:00:27] that we've got to make a shift for the stations further out

[00:00:31] with the pack-horse runnin' after, for he follows me like a dog

[00:00:35] we must strike across the country at the old jig-jog

[00:00:38] (jigigy-jog, jigigy-jog, jigigy-jog)

[00:00:57] this old black horse i'm riding, if you notice what's his brand

[00:01:01] he wears the crooked r, you see, none better in the land

[00:01:05] he takes a lot of beatin', and the other day we tried

[00:01:09] for a bit of a joke, with a racing bloke, for twenty pounds a side

[00:01:13] it was shift, boys, shift, for there wasn't the slightest doubt

[00:01:17] that i had to make him shift, for the money was nearly out

[00:01:20] but he cantered home a winner, with the other one at the flog

[00:01:24] he's a red-hot sort to pick up with his old jig-jog

[00:01:28] (jigigy-jog, jigigy-jog, jigigy-jog)

[00:01:32] i asked a cove for shearin' once along the marthaguy

[00:01:36] "we shear non-union here," says he. "i call it scab," says i

[00:01:40] i looked along the shearin' floor before i turned to go

[00:01:43] there were eight or ten non-union men a-shearin' in a row

[00:01:47] it was shift, boys, shift, for there wasn't the slightest doubt

[00:01:51] it was time to make a shift with the leprosy about

[00:01:55] so i saddled up my horses, and i whistled to my dog

[00:01:59] and i left his scabby station at the old jig-jog

[00:02:03] (jigigy-jog, jigigy-jog, jigigy-jog)

[00:02:06] i went to illawarra, where my brother's got a farm

[00:02:10] he has to ask the landlord's leave before he lifts an arm

[00:02:14] the landlord owns the countryside - man, woman, dog and cat

[00:02:18] they haven't the cheek to dare to speak without they touch their hat

[00:02:22] it was shift, boys, shift, for there wasn't the slightest doubt

[00:02:26] their little landlord god and i would soon have fallen out

[00:02:29] was i to touch my hat to him? was i his bloomin' dog?

[00:02:33] (no) so i makes for up the country at the old jig-jog

[00:02:37] (jigigy-jog, jigigy-jog, jigigy-jog)

[00:02:41] but it's time that i was movin', i've a mighty way to go

[00:02:45] till i drink artesian water from a thousand feet below

[00:02:49] till i meet the overlanders with the cattle comin' down

[00:02:53] and i'll work a while till i make a pile, then have a spree in town

[00:02:56] so it's shift, boys, shift, for there isn't the slightest doubt

[00:03:00] we've got to make a shift for the stations further out

[00:03:04] the pack-horse runs behind us, for he follows like a dog

[00:03:08] and we cross a lot of country at the old jig-jog