The Battle With The Roan (1996 Digital Remaster)-Slim Dusty

[ti:The Battle With The Roan (1996 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:Rodeo Riders(1996 Digital Remaster)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Battle With The Roan (1996 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:05.01]I come ridin' down the Barwon with my saddle and my swag [00:09.74]Strapped across the bony framework of a long backed chestnut nag [00:14.24] [00:15.76]I was headin' for a station on the stockroute west of Bourke [00:20.18] [00:20.90]To tangle with an outlaw horse well known in campfire talk [00:24.93] [00:26.59]When I rode down to the stockyard where they said I'd find the boss [00:31.51]Standing just inside I saw the big roan outlaw horse [00:35.82] [00:37.38]He was just the kind of horseflesh a ringer dreams about [00:41.57] [00:42.13]Game eye and good strong shoulders and front legs well spaced out [00:46.54] [00:49.32]I said now boss is that the horse the ringers rave about [00:53.44] [00:54.12]I've heard of him at Camooweal and even further out [00:58.54] [01:00.31]Yes he's been tried by desert men and riders from the gulf [01:04.38] [01:05.00]He said I'd give my station to the man that calls his bluff [01:09.31] [01:11.01]And as I strapped the bridle on that proud and shapely head [01:15.69]I pictured me as owner of his big merino spread [01:19.99] [01:21.66]I threw my Schneider poley on and tightened up the girth [01:25.96] [01:26.62]And as I stepped astride him the big horse left this earth [01:31.08] [01:32.68]He left the ground in one tight ball as solid as a stone [01:37.05] [01:37.57]And all that I could see around was one big blur of roan [01:42.18] [01:43.37]I hit him with my goosenecks around the shoulder points [01:47.60] [01:48.22]He twisted like a reptile that had a million joints [01:52.58] [01:54.24]He dropped his shoulders way down low and chopped out to the right [01:58.48] [01:59.05]He started striking at the bit each time the spurs did bite [02:03.37] [02:04.97]I thought I felt him weaken so I voiced a victory yell [02:09.20] [02:09.81]What happened then I only know for those who saw it tell [02:14.16] [02:16.96]So I rode way from the station with my saddle and my swag [02:21.78]Strapped across the bony framework of the same old chestnut nag [02:26.19] [02:27.80]And just as I was leaving he whinnied loud and shrill [02:32.12] [02:32.78]And even after all these years I fancy I hear him still [02:37.16] [02:38.63]They still tell yarns about him around the campfire blaze [02:43.11] [02:43.68]Of the noted riders that he's thrown so many different ways [02:48.31] [02:49.62]And while I'm taking night watch on a cattle camp alone [02:53.81] [02:54.42]I try to figure how I lost the battle with the roan