Тексты песен «John Williamson»

by John Williamson Send down the rain, Lord, if you don't mind. Send down the rain, lightning and thunder, If my crops don't get a drink we cannot stay I'll take my wife and kid's. . .an' just walk away Yes, send down...

I'll sing you the desert, where blackmen sailed Waterhole to water, where whitemen failed See the face of dreamers, forgotten souls Hear the voice of cattlemen crackle in the coals Maybe we will learn what's written in...

What am I doing here? On the banks of the Diamantina Where only skinny dingoes and horny lizards go The moon is loud and clear Like the notes on m' concertina I'll play another drovin' song the white owl wouldn't know...

They called him Camel Boy But he was a man He walked behind us ...with a billy He tended the campfire ... and he made the tea Drowned in the colours ... we didn't see And the ghost gums stand ... gleaming white Showed...

They couldn't understand why the drover cried As they buried the drover's boy The drover had always seemed so hard To the men in his employ A bolting horse, the stirrup lost And the drover's boy was dead. A shovel of...

Hey, did you ever wake up in the morning On the wrong side of the bed I bit confused and yawning You go straight out the back to your shed Yeah, all Australian boys need a shed A place where he can go, somewhere to...

by John Williamson It's not a hard place it's a soft and gentle land Gonna lay my bed on the soft and gentle sand Hear old man time whisper in my ear A thousand feet have been through here Hear the desert wind play a...

From Townsville to Greenvale we're building a line Through the ranges and the gorges and the great nickel mine The long days are dusty and hotter than hell And that's why we all worship Three Rivers Hotel There's Thiess...

I'm into cattle, my Father was too From Great Great Grandfather all the way through And we scarcely have wasted an hour of daylight Stickin' to Herefords and it's been all right Prepared for the lean times and save for...

By John Williamson Why don't we go back to the sheep, And leave this old lady alone. We've pushed and we've pulled, We've killed and we've mauled, And there's nowhere to hide from the sun. Why do we take more than we...

Hey, true blue Don't say you've gone Say you've knocked off for a smoko And you'll be back later on Hey, true blue Hey, true blue Give it to me straight, face to face Are you really disappearing Just another dying race...

Hey True Blue, don't say you've gone Say you've knocked off for a smoko And you'll be back later on Hey True Blue, Hey True Blue Give it to me straight Face to face Are you really disappearing, Just another dying race,...

Oh there once was a swagman camped in a billabong Under the shade of a coolibah tree And he sang as he looked at his old billy boiling Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me Chorus Who'll come a waltzing Matilda my...

by John Williamson It's time to think of why we're proud to be a part of A land so ancient, so hard to get a hold of Why the kangaroo and emu is on the baggy green Why do we sing of coolabahs, billabongs and cockatoos...

Well old Bob hasn't got much but he values his boots He values the time he spends growin' flowers He still loves his babies that grew to be men He recalls all the days 'n' nights and the hours When he and his woman...

This guitar only sings the way I play it It's a part of me just like another arm It started out as a little ukulele When I was just a boy on the farm My fingers were too lazy for piano But I could hold a tune pretty...