《Ballads of the Bush: The Man from Ironbark》歌词

[00:00:00] Ballads Of The Bush - 1. The Man From Ironbark - Gavin Lockley/Sharolyn Kimmorley/Sonja Schebeck/Paul Laszlo

[00:00:02] Written by：Gavin Lockley/Banjo Patterson

[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

[00:00:25] 'Ere shave my beard and whiskers off I'll be a man of mark

[00:00:29] I'll go and do the Sydney toff up home in Ironbark

[00:00:35] The barber man was small and flash as barbers mostly are

[00:00:39] He wore a strike-your-fancy sash he smoked a huge cigar

[00:00:43] 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

[00:00:51] And when he saw our friend arrive he whispered here's a lark

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

[00:01:02] There were some gilded youths that sat along the barber's wall

[00:01:06] Their eyes were dull their heads were flat they had no brains at all

[00:01:10] To them the barber passed the wink his dexter eyelid shut

[00:01:14] I'll make this bloomin' yokel think his bloomin' throat is cut

[00:01:18] And as he soaped and rubbed it in he made a rude remark

[00:01:22] 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

[00:01:58] He fetched a wild up-country yell might wake the dead to hear

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

[00:02:06] 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

[00:02:29] He set to work with nail and tooth he made the place a wreck

[00:02:33] He grabbed the nearest gilded youth and tried to break his neck

[00:02:37] And all the while his throat he held to save his vital spark

[00:02:41] And murder bloody murder yelled the man from Ironbark

[00:02:45] A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show

[00:02:49] He tried to run the bushman in but he refused to go

[00:02:53] And when at last the barber spoke and said 'twas all in fun

[00:02:56] 'Twas just a little harmless joke a trifle overdone

[00:03:00] A joke he cried by George that's fine a lively sort of lark

[00:03:04] I'd like to catch that murdering swine some night in Ironbark

[00:03:12] And now while round the shearing floor the list'ning shearers gape

[00:03:16] He tells the story o'er and o'er and brags of his escape

[00:03:20] Them barber chaps what keeps a tote by George I've had enough

[00:03:24] One tried to cut my bloomin' throat but thank the Lord it's tough

[00:03:37] And whether he's believed or no there's one thing to remark

[00:03:43] That flowing beards are all the go way up in Ironbark