Georgina's Son-Slim Dusty

[ti:Georgina's Son] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:Ringer From The Top End] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Georgina's Son - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:06.60]Trucks and roadtrains taking over the drovers been pushed out [00:10.92]The old track is seldom used anymore [00:12.80] [00:14.23]This song is dedicated to the drovers of yesterday and today [00:18.79] [00:19.32]And to the last of the great droving stock routes the Georgina [00:22.52] [00:24.67]Which begins at Lake Nash near Mt. Isa and ends near Bourke [00:28.78]In western New South Wales [00:30.46] [00:33.44]I was born in the saddle [00:35.87] [00:36.81]Born into a life I'll never leave [00:40.00] [00:42.03]The life of the drover [00:43.91] [00:44.67]Will always be the only life for me [00:47.61] [00:49.28]Like my father before me [00:52.41]I've ridden every stock route in the land [00:55.85] [00:57.42]From the Canning to the Birdsville Track [01:00.31]I know 'em like the back of my hand [01:03.50] [01:04.70]They call me Georgina's Son [01:07.24] [01:08.17]The last one in a long proud family line [01:11.37] [01:13.03]I'm the Georgina's Son [01:15.45]Comin' back to ride the old track one more time [01:18.99] [01:20.57]From Lake Nash to The Black Stump [01:23.44]This run's for the sake of Auld Lang Syne [01:27.56] [01:28.61]'Cause Georgina's Son [01:30.85]Is comin' back to see the old girl one last time [01:34.80] [01:43.96]I have seen me some changes [01:46.45] [01:47.24]In fifty years and fifteen miles a day [01:50.29] [01:52.16]With droughts an' floods an' midnight rushes [01:54.95]Trying to take my life along the way [01:57.81] [01:59.73]And I'm still in the saddle [02:02.30]Still tryin' to settle down some restless mob [02:05.83] [02:07.74]Stirred up by the distant roar of diesel in the night [02:12.06] [02:12.97]Another duffer out to get my job [02:16.02] [02:17.24]They call me Georgina's Son [02:19.70] [02:20.67]The last one in a long proud family line [02:24.86] [02:25.44]I'm the Georgina's Son [02:27.82]Comin' back to ride the old track one more time [02:31.48] [02:32.77]From Lake Nash to The Black Stump [02:35.70]This run's for the sake of Auld Lang Syne [02:40.77]'Cause Georgina's Son [02:43.03]Is comin' back to see the old girl one last time [02:47.14] [02:48.07]From Lake Nash to The Black Stump [02:51.05]This run's for the sake of Auld Lang Syne [02:55.51] [02:56.31]Georgina's Son [02:58.26]Is comin' back to see the old girl one last time