Sweeney (1998 Digital Remaster)-Slim Dusty

[ti:Sweeney (1998 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:The Very Best Of Slim Dusty] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sweeney (1998 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:05.99]It was somewhere in September [00:08.51]And the sun was going down [00:10.99]When I came in search of coffee [00:13.70]To a Darling River town [00:15.86] [00:17.46]Come And Have A Drink [00:18.66]We'll call it is a fitting name I think [00:21.99] [00:22.78]And twas raining for a wonder [00:24.93]Up at Come And Have A Drink [00:27.24] [00:29.12]Underneath the pub verandah [00:31.70]I was resting on a bunk [00:33.61] [00:34.19]When a stranger rose before me [00:36.86]And he said that he was drunk [00:38.98] [00:40.75]He apologised for speaking [00:43.32]There was no offence he swore [00:45.85]But he somehow seemed to fancy [00:47.61]That he'd seen my face before [00:51.02] [00:52.21]He agreed you can't remember [00:54.51]All the chaps you chance to meet [00:57.29]And he said his name was Sweeney [00:59.92]People lived in Sussex Street [01:01.98] [01:03.80]He was camping in a stable [01:06.44]That he swore that he was right [01:08.88]Only for the blanky horses [01:11.14]Walking over him all night [01:13.77] [01:15.45]He'd apparently been fighting [01:18.02]For his face was black and blue [01:20.49]And it looked as though [01:21.76]The horses had been treading on him too [01:25.91] [01:27.01]But an honest genial twinkle [01:29.56]In the eye that wasn't hurt [01:31.98]Seemed to hint of something better [01:34.25]Spite of drink and rags and dirt [01:37.02] [01:43.68]He was born in Parramatta [01:46.13]And he said with humour grim [01:48.73]That he'd like to see the city [01:51.07]Are the liquor finished him [01:54.63] [01:55.32]But he couldn't raise the money [01:57.95]He was damned if he could think [02:00.50]What the Government was doing here [02:03.13]He offered me a drink [02:05.00] [02:06.87]I declined twas self denial [02:09.44]And I lectured him on booze [02:11.44] [02:11.99]Using all the hackneyed arguments [02:14.80]That preachers mostly use [02:17.20] [02:18.60]Things I'd heard in temperance lectures [02:21.08]I was young and rather green [02:23.13] [02:23.64]And I ended [02:24.63]By referring to the man he might have been [02:29.36] [02:30.19]But he couldn't stay to argue [02:32.71]For his beer was nearly gone [02:35.28]He was glad he said to meet me [02:37.86]And he'd see me later on [02:40.44] [02:41.74]But he guessed he'd have to go [02:43.90]And get his bottle filled again [02:46.30] [02:46.84]And he gave a lurch [02:48.54]And vanished in the darkness and the rain [02:51.86] [02:54.58]Now of afternoons in cities [02:57.29]When the rain is on the land [02:59.69]Visions come to me of Sweeney [03:02.42]With his bottle in his hand