Bible Of The Bush-Slim Dusty

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:10.53]My young wife started something [00:13.53]When our partnership was new [00:16.95]She wrote dear Slim from your loving wife [00:19.74]June thirteenth nineteen fifty two [00:24.39]The Poetical Works of Lawson [00:27.42]Just a plain red bound book [00:30.42]But this since fifty two I've worked right through [00:33.54]My bible of the bush [00:37.95]It's battered now and faded [00:41.10]And it's travelled o'er the years [00:44.49]An I patched it up so many times [00:47.61]An mended the pages with care [00:51.69]Oh there's pencil marks on the pages [00:54.84]Abbreviations where a verse is long [00:57.87]But the ole red book my bible of the bush [01:00.99]Always has just one more song [01:19.38]Whenever I'm down an angry an the world is closing in [01:25.14]Hey I grab my guitar and the old red book [01:28.17]An I find another song to sing [01:32.46]Once again on the track with Andy [01:35.55]Gone with cattle down the Castlereagh [01:37.20]Well I'm lecturing old Sweeney on that pub verandah again [01:46.05]Oh there's truth there's hurt there's pity [01:49.08]For the battler the lonely the old [01:51.93]There is laughter humour and kindness [01:54.93]In the stories of life Lawson told [01:59.40]I hope that you take my meaning [02:02.31]I'm not being irreverent an smart [02:05.43]But when I call this book my bible of the bush [02:08.58]I speak from the depths of my heart [02:12.90]It's battered now and faded [02:15.96]From it's travelled o'er the years [02:19.32]An I patched it so many times [02:22.35]An mended the pages with care [02:26.34]I suppose I should get a new [02:29.31]But I feel that it would be wrong [02:32.37]For this ole red book my bible of the bush [02:35.43]Been my track mate too darn long [02:38.25]Hey this ole red book my bible of the bush [02:41.34]Been my track mate too darn long [02:43.92]Yeah