The Brass Well-Slim Dusty

[ti:The Brass Well] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:The Slim Dusty Heritage Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.30]The Brass Well - Slim Dusty [00:01.63]Written by：Slim Dusty/Henry Lawson [00:03.10] [00:16.50]'Tis a legend of the bushmen from the days of Cunningham [00:21.96]When he opened up the country and the early squatters came [00:26.98] [00:28.77]Tis the old tale of a fortune missed by men who did not seek [00:33.77] [00:34.33]And perhaps you haven't heard it [00:37.01]The Brass Well on Myall Creek [00:39.12] [00:43.89]They were north of running rivers [00:46.60]They were south of Queensland rains [00:49.17]And a blazing drought was scorching [00:52.09]Every grass blade from the plains [00:54.28] [00:56.18]So the stockmen drove the cattle to [00:58.86]The range where there was grass [01:01.43]And a couple sunk a well and found [01:04.51]What they believed was brass [01:06.81] [01:11.58]Here's some bloomin' brass they muttered [01:13.98]When they found it in the clay [01:16.02] [01:16.65]And they thought no more about it [01:19.37]And in time they went away [01:21.71] [01:23.57]But they heard of gold and saw [01:26.10]It somewhere down by Inverell [01:28.17] [01:28.79]And they felt and weighed it crying [01:31.54]Hell we found it in the well [01:33.68] [02:00.83]And they worked about the station [02:03.37]And at times they took the track [02:05.34] [02:05.89]Always meaning to save money [02:08.47]Always meaning to go back [02:10.91] [02:12.60]Always meanin like the bushmen [02:14.88] [02:15.46]Who go drifting round like wrecks [02:18.07]And they'd get half way to [02:20.04]Myall strike a pub and blow their cheques [02:23.29] [02:28.01]Then they told two more about it [02:30.54]And those other two grew old [02:32.59] [02:33.23]And they never found the brass well [02:35.91]And they never found the gold [02:38.40] [02:40.04]For the scrub grows dense and quickly [02:42.43]And though many went to seek [02:44.57] [02:45.19]No one ever struck the lost track [02:48.10]To the Well on Myall Creek [02:50.17] [02:54.93]And the story is forgotten and [02:57.73]I'm sitting here alas [02:59.44] [03:00.07]With a woeful Load of trouble [03:02.80]And a woeful lack of brass [03:04.99] [03:06.93]But I dream at times that [03:08.65]I might find what many went to seek [03:11.45] [03:12.07]That my luck might lead my footsteps [03:14.89]To the Well on Myall Creek [03:16.94] [03:18.95]'Tis a legend of the bushmen [03:21.00] [03:21.53]From the days of Cunningham [03:24.09]When he opened up the country [03:26.77]And the early squatters cam [03:29.11] [03:30.92]'Tis the old tale of a fortune missed [03:33.51]By men who did not seek [03:35.57] [03:36.09]And perhaps you haven't heard it [03:38.74]The Brass Well on Myall Creek [03:40.85] [03:42.72]And perhaps you haven't heard it [03:45.30]The Brass Well on Myall Creek