The Man From Iron Bark-Slim Dusty

[ti:The Man From Iron Bark] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:The Slim Dusty Heritage Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Man From Iron Bark - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:05.55]It was the man from Ironbark [00:06.95] [00:07.49]Who struck the Sydney town [00:08.90] [00:09.50]He wandered over street and park [00:11.60]He wandered up and down [00:12.83] [00:13.62]He loitered here he loitered there [00:15.55]Till he was like to drop [00:17.44]Until at last in sheer despair [00:19.60]He sought a barber's shop [00:21.14] [00:21.70]"Ere shave my beard and whiskers off [00:23.36]I'll be a man of mark [00:25.08] [00:25.67]I'll go and do the Sydney [00:27.28]Toff up home in Ironbark " [00:29.08] [00:32.93]The barber man was small and flash [00:34.96]As barbers mostly are [00:36.34] [00:37.03]He wore a strike-your-fancy sash [00:39.18]He smoked a huge cigar [00:40.41] [00:41.04]He was a humorist of note [00:43.18]And keen at repartee [00:44.34] [00:45.09]He laid the odds and kept a "tote" [00:47.22]Whatever that may be [00:48.55] [00:49.15]And when he saw our friend arrive [00:50.90]He whispered "Here's a lark [00:52.49] [00:53.05]Just watch me catch him all alive [00:55.21]This man from Ironbark " [00:56.48] [01:06.49]There were some gilded youths [01:07.79]That sat along the barber's wall [01:09.90] [01:10.60]Their eyes were dull [01:11.51]Their heads were flat [01:12.58]They had no brains at all [01:14.04] [01:14.62]To them the barber passed [01:16.14]A wink his dexter eyelid shut [01:18.13] [01:18.67]"I'll make this bloomin' yokel [01:20.19]Think his bloomin' throat is cut " [01:22.03] [01:22.89]And as he soaped and rubbed [01:24.08]It in he made a rude remark [01:26.08] [01:26.89]"I s'pose the flats is pretty [01:28.40]Green up there in Ironbark " [01:30.27] [01:34.01]A grunt was all reply he got [01:36.05]He shaved the bushman's chin [01:37.51] [01:38.20]Then made the water boiling [01:39.65]Hot and dipped the razor in [01:42.27]He raised his hand [01:43.32]His brow was black [01:44.45]He paused awhile to gloat [01:45.69] [01:46.20]Then slashed the red-hot razor-back [01:48.48]Across his victim's throat [01:49.59] [01:50.30]Upon the newly-shaven skin [01:52.16]It made a livid mark [01:53.58] [01:54.13]No doubt it fairly took him in [01:56.48]The man from Ironbark [01:57.92] [02:05.66]He fetched a wild up-country yell [02:07.83]Might wake the dead to hear [02:09.16] [02:09.68]And though his throat he knew full well [02:11.65]Was cut from ear to ear [02:13.63]He struggled gamely to his feet [02:15.23] [02:15.80]And faced the murd'rous foe [02:17.69]"You've done for me you dog [02:19.37]I'm beat one hit before I go [02:21.25] [02:21.76]I only wish I had a knife [02:23.78]You blessed murdering shark [02:25.33] [02:25.86]But you'll remember all your [02:27.54]Life the man from Ironbark " [02:29.54] [02:33.04]He lifted up his hairy paw [02:35.09]With one tremendous clout [02:36.55] [02:37.14]He landed on the barber's jaw [02:39.20]And knocked the barber out [02:40.49] [02:41.17]He set to work with tooth and nail [02:43.32]He made the place a wreck [02:45.23]He grabbed the nearest gilded youth [02:47.36]And tried to break his neck [02:48.74] [02:49.30]And all the while his throat [02:50.78]He held to save his vital spark [02:52.71] [02:53.28]And "Murder Bloody murder " [02:55.04]Yelled the man from Ironbark [02:56.64] [03:06.57]A peeler man who heard [03:08.15]The din came in to see the show [03:09.98] [03:10.66]He tried to run the bushman in [03:11.89] [03:12.49]But he refused to go [03:13.96] [03:14.64]And when at last the barber spoke [03:16.60]And said "'Twas all in fun' [03:18.71]Twas just a little harmless joke [03:20.79]A trifle overdone " [03:22.09] [03:22.79]"A joke " he said "By hell that's fine [03:24.65]A lively sort of lark [03:26.15] [03:26.75]I'd like to catch that murdering [03:28.30]Swine some night in Ironbark " [03:30.30] [03:34.15]And now while round the shearing [03:35.56]Floor the list'ning shearers gape [03:37.58] [03:38.12]He tells the story o'er and o'er [03:40.28]And brags of his escape [03:41.64] [03:42.21]"Them barber chaps what keeps a tote [03:44.17]By hell I've had enough [03:46.19]One tried to cut my bloomin' throat [03:48.30]But thank the Lord it's tough " [03:49.72] [03:50.24]And whether he's believed or no [03:52.36]There's one thing to remark [03:53.81] [03:54.36]That flowing beards are all the [03:56.09]Go back home in Ironbark [03:57.74] [03:59.65]That flowing beards are all the [04:00.90]Go back home in Ironbark