How Will I Go With Him Mate? (1996 Digital Remaster)-Slim Dusty

[ti:How Will I Go With Him Mate? (1996 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:Rodeo Riders(1996 Digital Remaster)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]How Will I Go With Him Mate? (1996 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:08.38]This is the tale of a mate I had [00:10.91]Back in those other days [00:12.71] [00:13.53]Thin as wire and just as tough [00:15.77]And woolly and wide and his ways [00:18.04] [00:19.53]When the going was rugged and really rough [00:22.18]He would always cheerfully state [00:24.76]Things are bad but they could be worse [00:27.15]So we'll see how we go with it mate [00:29.26] [00:33.79]There was a time when we busted our cheques [00:36.23]In a town on the long ago now [00:38.65]When a big gun shearer got on the tear [00:41.28]And started to kick up a row [00:43.13] [00:45.01]And he picked on the smallest one of our lot [00:47.65]And slaughter was plain to see [00:49.95]Till our mate said listen you son of a gun [00:52.50]Come and fire a charge at me [00:54.27] [00:55.24]Ha things really began to happen then because [00:57.54] [00:58.68]As he picked himself out of the dust an the [01:00.95]Dirt [01:01.24]Both eyes were the colour of slate [01:03.55]And he squinted a bit as he said to me [01:06.27]How did I go with him mate [01:08.01] [01:08.53]How did he go with him need I tell ya [01:11.44] [01:14.86]Another time in the sunny state [01:17.49]With both of us was badly bent [01:19.67]With saddle bags empty and nothing to smoke [01:22.18]And between us we hadn't a cent [01:24.32] [01:25.98]When we saw on a poster stuck on a wall [01:28.94]News of a rodeo [01:30.22] [01:31.09]Well here's our chance he said to me [01:33.45]We'll be kings of the wild west show [01:35.66] [01:38.38]But he drew the worse horse there was in the [01:40.49]Draw [01:40.89]Mean eyed and long in the neck [01:43.23]As he climbed up the chute he whispered to me [01:45.84]Be ready to collar the cheque [01:47.69] [01:48.44]Collar the cheque this is what really happened [01:51.03] [01:52.05]As he picked himself out of the red queensland dust [01:55.34]Just a few yards away from the gate [01:57.48] [01:58.02]He looked up at me with a lop sided grin [02:00.37]And said [02:00.71]How did I go with him mate [02:02.41] [02:03.48]Ha that's the way this fella used to be [02:05.65] [02:07.32]Now this mate of mine has gone to rest [02:10.69]The way he was destined to go [02:12.53] [02:13.45]Wheeling the lead of the scrubbers that broke [02:15.48]From a camp on the overflow [02:17.30] [02:19.25]As I stood by his grave on that drear winters [02:21.50]Day [02:21.83]With the rest of the crew and the boss [02:24.28]I remember this happy go lucky ways [02:26.87]And I knew just how great was our loss [02:29.09] [02:30.71]And I thought of him climbing those long golden stairs [02:33.22]With swim peter in charge of the gate [02:35.67]And I'm certain I heard his voice at my side [02:38.34]Saying [02:38.62]How will I go with him mate [02:40.17] [02:41.38]Well it's all over now and I'm settled down [02:45.80]Farway from those rovin' days [02:48.29]And the things I dead in the make sun you [02:50.77]At all gone saturdays [02:52.99] [02:54.37]But I'll always remember that certain mate [02:57.00]And the way he could cheerfully state [02:58.77] [02:59.50]Things are bad but they could be worse [03:01.72]So we'll see how we go with it mate [03:04.21]Yes [03:05.11] [03:06.03]We'll see how we go with it mate