《Back At The Isa》歌词

[00:00:00] Big galvanised roofs and monster pipes black

[00:00:04] Pink and white clouds from a chimney stack

[00:00:08] Red dust and hawks in the wind out back

[00:00:10] And here I am at the Isa

[00:00:22] What do you do in a town like the Isa

[00:00:24] Retrenched at fifty become an old miser

[00:00:26] Drink yourself blind so you're none the wiser

[00:00:29] Sit at home with the race form and whinge

[00:00:32] Just over the hill in his own backyard

[00:00:34] The landscape becomes a picture postcard

[00:00:37] Where the colours are soft but the life is hard

[00:00:40] On the stations here at the Isa

[00:00:51] Tonight's the night of the rodeo ball

[00:00:53] Before riders and bull and horses stand tall

[00:00:56] While out in the park some black people sprawl

[00:00:59] And share their money on flagons

[00:01:02] There's so much more to be understood

[00:01:04] Before coming out here like Robin Hood

[00:01:07] The do-gooders do more harm than good

[00:01:09] Without really knowing the Isa

[00:01:21] Through the Leichhardt East

[00:01:22] Where fools gold flashes

[00:01:23] Fossick around for Maltese Crosses

[00:01:26] Flog them off to the tourist buses

[00:01:28] See ghost gums under the moon

[00:01:31] Some really battle some make do

[00:01:34] The luckier ones make a quid and pull through

[00:01:36] Some perch at the bar like a caged cockatoo

[00:01:39] But that's nothing new at the Isa

[00:01:50] And it takes a special kind of girl

[00:01:53] To stay out here in this rugged world

[00:01:55] Keep your dignity when the oathes are hurled

[00:01:57] I pay my respects to you

[00:02:00] And I'll raise my glass to an outback town

[00:02:03] To that weathered spirit that won't back down

[00:02:05] It takes the courage of a rodeo clown

[00:02:08] To stick it out at the Isa

[00:02:19] Big galvanised roofs and monster pipes black

[00:02:23] Pink and white clouds from a chimney stack

[00:02:27] Red dust and hawks in the wind out back

[00:02:30] And here I am at the Isa

[00:02:32] Never thought I'd return to this lonely track

[00:02:35] And here I am back at the Isa

[00:02:38] Back At The Isa - John Williams