[00:00.00]Cattle Camp Reverie (1996 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty
[00:09.68]There's a rustle through the tree tops as the night wind softly sighs
[00:15.66]The cattle rest and the bushland is so still
[00:20.88]From the distance comes the jingle of the horses hobble chains
[00:26.28]As they graze the grass round about at will
[00:32.06]Then I gaze into the embers of my dying campfires glow
[00:37.59]And the pictures that I see there make me frown
[00:43.28]For they come along and taunt me what I might have been and done
[00:48.56]When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down
[01:04.49]I was once a horseman  a rider of renown
[01:10.11]Who loved it all the glamour and the glare
[01:15.70]The handshakes and the backslaps
[01:18.13]And the false friends that you meet
[01:20.82]But when the heart is young then everything seems fair
[01:26.64]A home of friendly neighbours with kiddies running round
[01:32.01]I threw away to wear a tinsel crown
[01:37.75]And they always come and taunt me as I sit alone at night
[01:43.06]When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down
[01:59.24]For as you grow older and must give the game away
[02:04.36]You're just a name that blazed awhile ago
[02:09.95]And the friends you've made have left you for another name that's new
[02:15.33]Then you take to droving cattle it's the only job you know
[02:22.53]Then by some lonely fireside you'll be dreaming all alone
[02:28.08]Whilst the boys are having fun they're back in town
[02:33.71]I know because I'm here tonight with a lifetime to regret
[02:39.07]When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down
[02:46.33]There's a rustle through the tree tops as the night wind softly sighs
[02:52.14]The old campfire has burned into the ground
[02:57.45]And my dreams have slowly drifted like the smoke into the trees
[03:02.94]When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down