《The Man From Ironbark》歌词

[00:00:00] The Man From Ironbark - Barry Ryan/Tom Ferris/Rum Corps Orchestra/Brett Weymark

[00:00:04] It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town

[00:00:08] He wandered over street and park he wandered up and down

[00:00:12] He loitered here he loitered there till he was like to drop

[00:00:17] Until at last in sheer despair he sought a barber's shop

[00:00:24] Ere shave my beard and whiskers off I'll be a man of mark

[00:00:28] I'll go and do the Sydney toff up home in Ironbark

[00:00:34] The barber man was small and flash as barbers mostly are

[00:00:38] He wore a strike-your-fancy sash he smoked a huge cigar;

[00:00:42] He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee

[00:00:47] He laid the odds and kept a "tote" whatever that may be

[00:00:50] And when he saw our friend he whispered

[00:00:53] Here's a lark

[00:00:55] Just watch me catch him all alive this man from Ironbark

[00:01:01] There were some gilded youths that sat along the barber's wall

[00:01:05] Their eyes were dull their heads were flat they had no brains at all

[00:01:09] To them the barber passed the wink his dexter eyelid shut

[00:01:13] I'll make this bloomin' yokel think his bloomin' throat is cut

[00:01:17] And as he soaped and rubbed it in he made a rude remark:

[00:01:21] I s'pose the flats is pretty green up there in Ironbark

[00:01:33] A grunt was all reply he got; he shaved the bushman's chin

[00:01:38] Then made the water boiling hot and dipped the razor in

[00:01:42] He raised his hand his brow grew black he paused awhile to gloat

[00:01:46] Then slashed the red-hot razor-back across his victim's throat:

[00:01:50] Upon the newly-shaven skin it made a livid mark

[00:01:54] No doubt it fairly took him in the man from Ironbark

[00:01:59] He fetched a wild up-country yell might wake the dead to hear

[00:02:03] And though his throat he knew full well was cut from ear to ear

[00:02:07] He struggled gamely to his feet and faced the murd'rous foe:

[00:02:10] You've done for me you dog I'm beat one hit before I go

[00:02:14] I only wish I had a knife you blessed murdering shark

[00:02:18] But you'll remember all your life the man from Ironbark

[00:02:22] He lifted up his hairy paw with one tremendous clout

[00:02:26] He landed on the barber's jaw and knocked the barber out

[00:02:30] He set to work with nail and tooth he made the place a wreck;

[00:02:34] He grabbed the nearest gilded youth and tried to break his neck

[00:02:38] And all the while his throat he held to save his vital spark

[00:02:42] And murder bloody murder yelled the man from Ironbark

[00:02:46] A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show;

[00:02:50] He tried to run the bushman in but he refused to go

[00:02:54] And when at last the barber spoke he said

[00:02:56] Twas all in fun

[00:02:58] Twas just a little harmless joke a trifle overdone

[00:03:02] A joke he cried

[00:03:03] By George that's fine; a lively sort of lark;

[00:03:05] I'd like to catch that murdering swine some night in Ironbark

[00:03:14] And now while round the shearing floor the list'ning shearers gape

[00:03:18] He tells the story o'er and o'er and brags of his escape

[00:03:22] Them barber chaps what keeps a tote

[00:03:25] By George I've had enough

[00:03:27] One tried to cut my bloomin' throat but thank the Lord it's tough

[00:03:41] And whether he's believed or no there's one thing to remark

[00:03:46] That flowing beards are all the go way up in Ironbark