Ah, Forget It-Slim Dusty

[ti:Ah, Forget It] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:Country Livin'] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ah, Forget It - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:11.57]I recollect his joining [00:14.03]I liked him from the first [00:16.48]His smile was everlasting [00:19.05]Unquenchable his thirst [00:21.52]Oh I ventured once to ask him [00:24.01]What made him take to booze [00:26.08] [00:26.60]He muttered ah forget it [00:28.98]I drink because I choose [00:31.15] [00:31.67]It wasn't quite an answer [00:34.03]He saw that I'd was hurt [00:35.97] [00:36.53]And hastened to repair things [00:39.15]But ah forget it first [00:41.15] [00:42.81]I didn't mean to snub you [00:45.41]Then shook me by the hand [00:47.81]A woman but forget it [00:50.24]I said [00:50.86]I understand [00:52.29] [00:52.90]Then he shouted me a whiskey [00:55.44]And paid for two or three [00:57.87]And grumbled ah forget it [01:00.22]When I said This one's on me [01:02.24] [01:02.80]His heart was like old Phar Laps [01:05.36]As big and just as great [01:07.20] [01:07.77]And many a needy cobber [01:10.24]A helping hand he gave [01:12.26] [01:14.14]When came the day for sailing [01:16.63]To foreign parts unknown [01:19.01]We all had friends to cheer us [01:21.55]But he was there alone [01:23.48] [01:24.08]Until the grey haired lady [01:26.46]A mothers eyes alight [01:28.36] [01:28.96]Said son I'll keep on praying [01:30.99] [01:31.51]For you both day and night [01:33.31] [01:34.23]With ah forget it mother [01:36.50]Those things will be ok [01:38.38] [01:39.09]We stumbled up the gangplank [01:41.54]And so we sailed away [01:44.03] [01:52.64]Well soon the old battalion [01:55.02]Was fighting in the line [01:56.96] [01:57.52]And you know finer hero [01:59.97]Than this old friend of mine [02:01.91] [02:02.59]One night out in the jungle [02:04.86]When we had made a break [02:06.83] [02:07.40]I learned just why the digger [02:09.84]Is the bravest thing God made [02:11.88] [02:12.67]Wounded in the shell hole [02:15.00]And wallowing in mire [02:16.98] [02:17.60]The battle stormed around me [02:19.80]With crackling rifle fire [02:22.07] [02:23.63]Machine guns loudly stuttered [02:25.85]And swept the shell hole rim [02:27.91] [02:28.43]When someone dropped beside me [02:30.84]Oh I knew that it was him [02:32.73] [02:33.34]And his cheery voice was saying [02:35.72]Buck up [02:36.34]This wars a cow [02:37.54] [02:38.26]But ah forget it cobber [02:40.11] [02:40.71]For I'll get ya back somehow [02:42.71] [02:43.24]Despite that mad infernal [02:45.71]He safely brought me through [02:48.17]But not before the other side [02:50.68]Had badly got him too [02:52.69] [02:54.46]In choking words I thanked him [02:56.84]Though dying he would gain [02:59.33]He said ah gee forget it [03:01.30] [03:01.84]Ah you would have done the same [03:03.76] [03:04.40]His rugged face was greying [03:06.75]I knew it was the end [03:09.21]I better man than I am [03:11.74]Had died to save his friend [03:13.71] [03:14.29]And when he comes to judgment [03:16.63]Oh I know just what he'll say [03:18.52] [03:19.13]Dear God I am unfitted [03:21.60]To tread the holy way [03:24.30] [03:25.34]I've gone my way unheeding [03:27.82]Just lived a life of sin [03:30.06] [03:30.89]But God the Just will answer [03:34.06] [03:34.69]Forget it son come in