《How the Firequeen Crossed the Swamp》歌词

[00:00:00] How The Firequeen Crossed The Swamp - Norma O'Hara Murphy

[00:00:02] Written by：Norma O'Hara Murphy

[00:00:04] The flood was down in the Wilga swamp

[00:00:08] Three feet over the mud

[00:00:11] And the teamsters camped on the Wilga range

[00:00:15] Swore at the rising flood

[00:00:19] One by one they had tried the trip

[00:00:23] Double and treble teams

[00:00:27] And one after one each desert ship

[00:00:30] Had sunk to her axle beams

[00:00:36] The last of the teams to this struggled back

[00:00:39] And the sun was low in the sky

[00:00:43] And the first of the stars was peeping out

[00:00:47] When Dareaway Dan came by

[00:00:52] There's never a teamster draws to Bourke

[00:00:55] But has taken the help of Dan

[00:00:59] There's never a team on the great north road

[00:01:02] Can lift as the big roans can

[00:01:08] Broad hipped beauties that nothing can stop

[00:01:11] Leaders that swing to a cough

[00:01:15] Eight blue roans on the near side yote

[00:01:18] And eight red roans on the off

[00:01:23] The day want done now

[00:01:25] There were five good miles

[00:01:27] Does farther of you hold in mind

[00:01:31] If you never were to stop before an old man

[00:01:34] You'll stop by the will go floop

[00:01:39] The dark will be down in an hour or so

[00:01:43] There isn't the ghost of a moon

[00:01:47] So leave your nags in the station grass

[00:01:50] Instead of the long lagoon

[00:01:56] Dan stood up to the leader's head

[00:02:00] And fondled the big brown nose

[00:02:04] There's many a mile in the roan team yet

[00:02:08] Before they are feed for the crows

[00:02:13] The light of the stars is light enough

[00:02:16] They have nothing to do but plough

[00:02:20] There's never a swamp has held them yet

[00:02:23] And a swamp won't stop them now

[00:02:28] They're waiting for flour at the Swagman's bend

[00:02:32] I'll steer for the lifting light

[00:02:35] There's nothing to fear with a team like mine

[00:02:39] And I camp in the bend tonight

[00:02:44] So they stood aside and they watched them pass

[00:02:47] In the glow of the sinking sun

[00:02:51] With straining muscles and tightened chains

[00:02:54] Sixteen pulling like one

[00:03:00] With jingling harness and droning wheels

[00:03:03] And bare whose rhythmic tramp

[00:03:06] With creaking timbers and lurching load

[00:03:10] The Fire Queen faces the swamp

[00:03:15] And the big roans fought for footing

[00:03:19] And the spreaders threshed like flails

[00:03:22] And the big wheels lifted the muddy spume

[00:03:25] To the bend of the red float rails

[00:03:31] And they cheered him out to the westward

[00:03:34] With the last of the failing light

[00:03:38] And the splashing hoofs and the driver's voice

[00:03:41] Died softly away in the night

[00:03:46] Nah some and speak out the shadowy form

[00:03:50] That guided the leader's reins

[00:03:54] And some of them speak of a shod black horse

[00:03:57] Pulled in the off side chains

[00:04:02] How every time that he lifted his feet

[00:04:05] The Waggon would groan and swing

[00:04:09] Every time that he dropped his head

[00:04:13] You could hear the tug chains ring

[00:04:18] And Dan to the Swagman's bend came through

[00:04:21] Mud spattered from foot to head

[00:04:24] And they couldn't tell which of the roans were blue

[00:04:28] And which of the roans were red

[00:04:33] Now this is the tale as I heard it told

[00:04:37] And may believe it true

[00:04:41] When the teamsters say in their off hand way

[00:04:44] Was the devil pulled him through

[00:04:50] There's never a teamster draws to Bourke

[00:04:53] But has taken the help of Dan

[00:04:57] There's never a team on the great north road

[00:05:00] Can lift as the big roans can

[00:05:05] Can lift as the big roans can

[00:05:11] Can lift as the big roans can