The Brass Well-Slim Dusty

[ti:The Brass Well (1992 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:Who's Riding Old Harlequin Now?] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Brass Well - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:16.64]'Tis a legend of the bushmen from the days of cunning ham [00:21.13] [00:22.11]When he opened up the country and the early squatters came [00:26.63] [00:29.11]'Tis the old tale of a fortune missed by men who did not seek [00:33.48] [00:34.45]And perhaps you haven't heard it the brass well on my all creek [00:39.29] [00:44.24]They were north of running rivers they were south of queens land rains [00:48.72] [00:49.51]And a blazing drought was scorching every grass blade from the plains [00:54.46] [00:56.36]So the stock men drove the cattle to the range where there was grass [01:01.76]And a couple sunk a well and found what they believed was brass [01:06.29] [01:11.50]Here's some blooming brass they muttered when they found it in the clay [01:16.08] [01:16.75]And they thought no more about it and in time they went away [01:21.55] [01:23.57]But they heard of gold and saw it somewhere down by inveigler [01:27.77] [01:29.03]And they felt and weighed it crying hell we found it in the well [01:33.54] [02:00.99]And they worked about the station and at times they took the track [02:05.47] [02:06.10]Always meaning to save money always meaning to go back [02:10.65] [02:12.70]Always meaning like the bushmen who go drifting round like wrecks [02:17.36] [02:18.56]And they'd get half way to my all strike a pub and blow their Cheshire [02:22.83] [02:28.10]Then they told two more about it and those other two grew old [02:32.51] [02:33.33]And they never found the brass well and they never found the gold [02:37.88] [02:40.13]For the scrub grows dense and quickly and though many went to seek [02:44.67] [02:45.19]No one ever struck the lost track to the well on my all creek [02:50.00] [02:55.08]And the story is forgotten and I'm sitting here alas [02:59.44] [03:00.29]With a woeful load of trouble and a woeful lack of brass [03:04.90] [03:07.07]But I dream at times that I might find what many went to seek [03:11.30] [03:12.12]That my luck might lead my footsteps to the well on my all creek [03:16.81] [03:18.98]'Tis a legend of the bushmen from the days of cunning ham [03:23.27] [03:24.24]When he opened up the country and the early squatters came [03:28.61] [03:30.99]'Tis the old tale of a fortune missed by men who did not seek [03:35.66] [03:36.25]And perhaps you haven't heard it the brass well on my all creek [03:40.91] [03:42.96]And perhaps you haven't heard it the brass well on my all creek