《Bill(1997 Digital Remaster)》歌词

[00:00:00] Bill - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提)

[00:00:00] Written by：Slim Dusty/Henry Lawson

[00:00:05] He shall live to the end of this mad old world

[00:00:09] As he lived since the world began

[00:00:12] He never has done any good for himself

[00:00:15] But been good to every man

[00:00:19] He never has done any good for himself

[00:00:22] And I'm sure that he never will

[00:00:26] He drinks and he swears and he fights at times

[00:00:30] And his name is mostly Bill

[00:00:35] He carried a freezing mate to his cave

[00:00:38] And nursed him for all I know

[00:00:42] When Europe was mainly a sheet of ice

[00:00:46] Thousands of years ago

[00:00:49] He has stuck for many a mate since then

[00:00:52] He is with us everywhere still

[00:00:56] He loves and gambles when he is young

[00:00:59] And the girls all stick up for Bill

[00:01:05] He has thirsted on deserts that others might drink

[00:01:08] He has given lest others should lack

[00:01:12] He has staggered half blinded through fire or drought

[00:01:15] With a sick man on his back

[00:01:19] He is first to the rescue in tunnel or shaft

[00:01:22] From bully to broken hill

[00:01:26] When the water breaks in or the fire breaks out

[00:01:29] A leader of men is Bill

[00:01:35] He is good for the noblest sacrifice

[00:01:38] He can do what few men can

[00:01:41] He will break his heart that the girl he loves

[00:01:45] May marry a better man

[00:01:49] And there's many a mother and wife tonight

[00:01:52] Whose heart and eyes will fill

[00:01:56] When she thinks of the days of long ago

[00:01:59] When she well might have stuck to Bill

[00:02:05] Maybe he's in trouble or hard up now

[00:02:09] Travelling far for work

[00:02:12] Or fighting a dead past down tonight

[00:02:15] In a lone camp west of Burke

[00:02:19] When he's happy and flush take your sorrows to him

[00:02:22] And borrow as much as you will

[00:02:26] But when he's in trouble or stony broke

[00:02:29] Why you never will hear from Bill

[00:02:35] And when because of it's million sins

[00:02:38] This earth is cracked like a shell

[00:02:41] He would stand by a mate at the judgement gate

[00:02:45] And comfort him down in hell

[00:02:50] I haven't much sentiment left to waste

[00:02:53] But let cynics sneer if they will

[00:02:57] Perhaps god will fix up the world again

[00:03:01] For the sake of the likes of Bill