The Ringer And The Princess (Live)-Graeme Connors

[ti:The Ringer And The Princess (Live)] [ar:Graeme Connors] [al:#1 Hits Live] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ringer And The Princess (Live) - Graeme Connors [00:02.25]Everybody called him Dingo he didn't seem to mind the name [00:09.21] [00:12.53]Aboriginal and Asian blood ran fifty fifty in his veins [00:19.81] [00:22.52]With skin like saddle leather an inscrutable kind of smile [00:29.94] [00:32.45]Beneath the brim of his akubra he had the dreaming in his eyes [00:40.59] [00:42.68]She had a bloodline back to Europe the boss' daughter mary Ann [00:50.37] [00:53.38]Home for Christmas at the station from a boarding school in Cairns [01:01.70] [01:03.67]With such a perfect face and figure the boys'd blush when she walked by [01:11.38] [01:14.10]Behind her back they called her princess coz she had the distance in her eyes [01:22.28] [01:24.70]Oh the ringer and the princess the dingo and the deer [01:32.42] [01:35.71]I'll tell you their story if you want to hear [01:42.97] [01:46.15]December rain fell with a vengeance from a cyclone in the gulf [01:53.59] [01:56.54]Bone dry gullies turned to rivers and plains became a sea of mud [02:04.57] [02:06.96]So the boss called everyone together the family and the station hands [02:15.16] [02:17.70]To open gates and knock down fences and give the stock a fighting chance [02:26.37] [02:28.52]Well the princess she was out there riding riding along beside the men [02:36.20] [02:39.11]Leading horses up to safety trying to bring the stragglers in [02:46.87] [02:49.74]Till she heard a wild commotion a little further down the way [02:57.33] [03:00.25]A mare was trying to cross the gully and her foal was being washed away [03:08.39] [03:10.72]Now the young have always been impulsive the princess had no second thoughts [03:18.54] [03:21.24]She rode her mount into that gully trying to save the drowning horse [03:29.82] [03:31.93]But in the midst of the raging waters her pony lost its step and fell [03:39.58] [03:42.31]With her foot caught in the stirrup the princess disappeared as well [03:50.18] [03:52.90]Dingo saw the whole thing happen and like a man possessed he rode [04:01.05] [04:03.60]Straight into that swollen gully about a hundred yards below [04:11.66] [04:14.18]And by the time the others got there all hope of finding her was gone [04:22.10] [04:24.70]Till Dingo staggered from the water with the princess in his arms [04:34.21] [04:35.69]Oh the ringer and the princess the Dingo and the deer [04:43.32] [04:46.69]I'll tell you their story if you want to hear [04:54.09] [04:57.37]Now the princess owns the station her dad the boos has long since died [05:05.82] [05:08.20]And although she never married Dingo was always by her side [05:16.57] [05:18.74]Still the gossips talk about them even after all these years [05:27.81] [05:29.78]About the ringer and the princess the Dingo and the deer [05:37.52] [05:40.65]About the ringer and the princess the Dingo and the deer