Happy Jack (1996 Digital Remaster)-Slim Dusty

[ti:Happy Jack (1996 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:To A Mate: Slim Dusty Remembers 'Mack' Cormack] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Happy Jack (快乐的杰克) (1996 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:04.26]I once knew a feller a travelling mate [00:06.43]Not bada as fellers go [00:07.94] [00:08.65]He was happiest when he was miserable [00:11.18]If ever that could be so [00:13.35]He'd wake up every mornin' [00:15.56]With the world upon his back [00:17.61] [00:18.30]And so for the want of a better name [00:20.81]We called him happy Jack [00:22.51] [00:24.51]If ever you travelled on outback tracks [00:26.97]Most of us sometimes do [00:28.46] [00:28.99]With anxious eyes on the petrol gauge in the hope [00:31.80]It would see you through [00:33.51]You're a 100 miles from nowhere [00:35.86]And eighty still to go [00:38.14]You'll hear his voice like the crack of doom [00:40.90]The petrol's gettin' low [00:42.77] [00:55.36]And when you're out on the black soul flats [00:57.66]And you know what some rain can do [00:59.47] [01:00.06]You hope for the best as you head for the west [01:02.36]Then you whisper a prayer or two [01:04.69]And just when you're halfway over [01:06.88]And starting to breath again [01:08.66] [01:09.37]You say with sigh and a mournful eye [01:11.88]I think we're in for rain [01:13.63] [01:15.66]And when on a long and lonely run [01:17.80]Nothing in between [01:19.56] [01:20.07]The town you left is away in the past [01:22.88]The next one a distant dream [01:24.70]O he'll prick up his ears and listen [01:27.06]And then in accents low [01:28.98] [01:29.57]I don't like the noise she's makin' boss [01:31.91]The diff's about to go [01:33.65] [01:46.09]When you've bumped over corrugations so [01:48.79]Deep you could bury a cow [01:50.15] [01:50.91]You say to yourself it's pretty bad but the worst [01:53.97]Must be over now [01:54.93] [01:55.45]Then he'll look at you with a woeful look and [01:58.46]Furrows on his brow [01:59.53] [02:00.42]The last fifty miles on the road they say is [02:02.89]The worst in Australia now [02:04.43] [02:06.16]Oh I wonder where he is today [02:08.65]This travelling mate I had [02:10.03] [02:10.91]Where ever he is it's safe to say that things [02:13.96]Are really bad [02:15.39]If it's not the diff it's something else [02:17.97]Or petrol's gettin' low [02:19.45] [02:20.15]It's pounds peanuts and that's a bet [02:22.74]Something's about to go