To An Old Mate-Slim Dusty

[ti:To An Old Mate] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:Stories I Wanted To Tell] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.16]To An Old Mate - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:01.42]Written by：Slim Dusty/Henry Lawson [00:02.72] [00:07.98]Old mate in the gusty old weather [00:10.77] [00:11.47]When our hopes and our troubles were new [00:14.39] [00:15.47]In the years spent in wearing out leather [00:18.15] [00:19.09]I found you unselfish and true [00:21.71] [00:22.43]I have gathered these for as as together [00:25.39] [00:26.20]For the sake of our friendship and you [00:28.95] [00:29.55]You may think for a while and with reason [00:32.61] [00:33.19]Though still with a kindly regret [00:36.03] [00:36.84]That I've left it for late in the season [00:39.98] [00:40.94]Prove I remember you yet [00:43.37] [00:44.25]But you'll never judge me by their treason [00:47.53] [00:48.08]Who prop thy friends and forget [00:50.87] [01:00.20]I can still feel the spirit that bore us [01:03.67] [01:04.61]And often the old stars will shine [01:07.20] [01:07.92]I remember the last spree in corus [01:10.97] [01:11.62]For the sake of that other lang syne [01:14.57] [01:15.19]When the tracks lay divided before us [01:18.19] [01:18.72]Your path through the future and mine [01:22.14]Through the frost wind that cuts like whip lashes [01:25.44] [01:26.01]Through the ever blind haze of the drought [01:28.83] [01:29.55]And in fancier times by the flashes [01:32.67] [01:33.25]Of light in the darkness of death [01:35.89] [01:36.57]I have followed the tent poles and ashes [01:39.81] [01:40.35]Of camps that we moved further out [01:42.93] [01:52.78]You will find in these pages a trace of [01:55.90] [01:56.59]That side of our past that was bright [01:59.29] [02:00.05]And recognize something the face of [02:03.15] [02:03.99]A friend who has dropped out of sight [02:06.50] [02:07.51]Oh I send them along in the place of [02:10.41] [02:11.24]The letters I promised to write yeah [02:14.54]Old mate in the gusty old weather [02:17.32] [02:18.11]When our hopes and our troubles were new [02:20.92] [02:21.67]In the years spent in wearing out leather [02:24.64] [02:25.23]I found you unselfish and true [02:28.15] [02:28.91]I have gathered these for as as together [02:31.88] [02:32.52]For the sake of our friendship and you better [02:35.67] [02:36.17]I found