The Old Jimmy Woodser-Slim Dusty

[ti:The Old Jimmy Woodser] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:Stories I Wanted To Tell] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Old Jimmy Woodser - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:13.83]The old Jimmy Woodser comes into the bar [00:17.79]Unwelcomed unnoticed unknown [00:21.75]Too old and too odd to be drunk with by far; [00:26.07]So he glides to the end where the lunch baskets are [00:30.44]And they say that he tipples alone [00:35.27]And they say that he tipples alone [00:38.57] [00:39.63]His frockcoat is green and the nap is no more [00:45.61]And his hat is not quite at its best; [00:49.00] [00:49.89]He wears the peaked collar our grandfathers wore [00:53.90]The black-ribbon tie that was legal of yore [00:59.14]And the coat buttoned over his breast [01:03.16]And the coat buttoned over his breast [01:06.40] [01:09.12]But I dreamed as he tasted his 'bitter' to-night [01:12.20]And the lights in the bar-room grew dim [01:16.23] [01:17.00]That the shades of the friends of that other day's [01:20.84]Light [01:21.25]And of girls that were bright in our grandfathers” [01:24.79]Sight [01:26.39]Lifted shadowy glasses to him [01:30.16]Lifted shadowy glasses to him [01:33.07] [01:36.14]Yes the old Jimmy Woodser comes into the bar [01:40.35]Unwelcomed unnoticed unknown [01:43.39] [01:44.23]Too old and too odd to be drunk with by far; [01:48.07]So he glides to the end where the lunch baskets are [01:51.84] [01:53.37]And they say that he tipples alone [01:58.03] [02:05.58](Instrumental) [02:06.36] [02:20.85]Then I opened the door and the old man passed out [02:24.75]With his short shuffling step and bowed head; [02:28.20]And I sighed; for I felt as I turned me about [02:32.72]An odd sense of respect born of whisky no doubt [02:36.80] [02:37.89]For a life that was fifty years dead [02:41.63]For a life that was fifty years dead [02:44.92] [02:48.10]And I thought there are times when our memory trends [02:51.43] [02:52.08]Through the future as 'twere on its own [02:56.20]That I out-of-date ere my pilgrimage ends [03:00.03]In a new-fashioned bar to dead loves and dead friends [03:05.29] [03:06.39]Might drink like the old man alone [03:10.39]Might drink like the old man alone