Scots Of The Riverina-John Schumann and The Vagabond Crew

[ti:Scots Of The Riverina] [ar:John Schumann and The Vagabond Crew] [al:Behind The Lines (Expanded Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.21]Scots Of The Riverina - John Schumann and The Vagabond Crew [00:01.10]Written by：Traditional [00:01.66] [00:12.63]The boy cleared out to the city from his home at harvest time [00:17.03] [00:18.34]They were Scots of the Riverina and to run from home was a crime [00:23.70] [00:24.35]The old man burned his letters the first and last he burned [00:29.40] [00:30.40]And he scratched his name from the Bible when the old wife's back was turned [00:35.29] [00:39.72]A year went past and another There were calls from the firingline [00:44.18] [00:45.45]They heard the boy had enlisted but the old man made no sign [00:50.17] [00:51.96]His name must never be mentioned on the farm by Gundagai [00:55.57] [00:58.25]They were Scots of the Riverina with ever the kirk hard by [01:03.04] [01:06.38]The boy came home on his final and the township's bonfire burned [01:11.07] [01:12.43]His mother's arms were about him but the old man's back was turned [01:17.10] [01:18.49]The daughters begged for pardon till the old man raised his hand [01:23.77] [01:25.97]A Scot of the Riverina who was hard to understand [01:30.67] [02:03.22]The boy was killed in Flanders where the best and bravest die [02:06.59] [02:08.08]There were tears at the Grahame homestead and grief in Gundagai [02:14.04]But the old man ploughed at daybreak and the old man ploughed till the mirk [02:19.28] [02:19.81]There were furrows of pain in the orchard while his housefolk went to the kirk [02:24.74] [02:30.79]The hurricane lamp in the rafters dimly and dimly burned [02:35.40] [02:37.91]And the old man died at the table when the old wife's back was turned [02:42.97] [02:43.69]Face down on his bare arms folded he sank with his wild grey hair [02:49.04] [02:51.48]Outspread o'er the open Bible and a name rewritten there