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Cattle Camp Reverie (1996 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty |
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There's a rustle through the tree tops as the night wind softly sighs |
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The cattle rest and the bushland is so still |
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From the distance comes the jingle of the horses hobble chains |
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As they graze the grass round about at will |
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Then I gaze into the embers of my dying campfires glow |
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And the pictures that I see there make me frown |
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For they come along and taunt me what I might have been and done |
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When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down |
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I was once a horseman a rider of renown |
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Who loved it all the glamour and the glare |
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The handshakes and the backslaps |
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And the false friends that you meet |
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But when the heart is young then everything seems fair |
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A home of friendly neighbours with kiddies running round |
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I threw away to wear a tinsel crown |
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And they always come and taunt me as I sit alone at night |
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When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down |
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For as you grow older and must give the game away |
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You're just a name that blazed awhile ago |
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And the friends you've made have left you for another name that's new |
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Then you take to droving cattle it's the only job you know |
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Then by some lonely fireside you'll be dreaming all alone |
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Whilst the boys are having fun they're back in town |
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I know because I'm here tonight with a lifetime to regret |
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When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down |
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There's a rustle through the tree tops as the night wind softly sighs |
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The old campfire has burned into the ground |
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And my dreams have slowly drifted like the smoke into the trees |
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When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down |
