The Clearing Sale (1992 - Remaster)-Slim Dusty

[ti:The Clearing Sale (1992 - Remaster)] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:The Man Who Steadies The Lead] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Clearing Sale (1992 - Remaster) - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:07.30]Have you ever stopped to linger when a clearing sale is done [00:12.93] [00:13.84]And the warmth of that old homestead seems to vanish with the sun [00:19.27] [00:20.21]All the bidders have their bargains and the auctioneer is paid [00:25.28] [00:26.63]And the twilight wraps the old home in its dreams of yesterday [00:31.50] [00:35.37]The gate is swinging open as I take the lonely path [00:40.39] [00:41.57]No welcome lights the window no cheery blaze to warm the hearth [00:47.04] [00:47.75]And I feel like an intruder as though I walk on sacred ground [00:53.07] [00:54.17]Only silence comes to greet me for the shadows make no sound [00:59.52] [01:05.86]There's a rocker in a corner but it won't rock no more [01:10.49] [01:12.40]There's a lucky horseshoe hanging still on a nail above the door [01:17.50] [01:20.44]I step upon a child's toy hell a broken tip truck red and blue [01:25.57] [01:27.06]Oh I seem to hear a child laugh maybe you can hear it too [01:31.18] [01:34.72]I see my own reflection in a mirror on the wall [01:38.98] [01:40.80]And a picture of a horse team lies forgotten in the hall [01:45.20] [01:49.12]Just a few things no one bid for and now they're set aside at last [01:53.84] [01:55.89]Like the memories of the homestead now they'll slip into the past [01:59.96] [02:03.50]I wonder how the old man felt to see his tractor go [02:07.84] [02:09.85]And it must have hurt the old wife though she'd never let it show [02:14.31] [02:17.84]To see the things she had a lifetime now pass into other hands [02:21.94] [02:23.81]No a clearing sales' not easy friends when it's time to leave the land [02:28.93] [02:31.93]Just a few discarded relics of the days that used to be [02:36.90] [02:38.43]And I leave them as I found them for what could they mean to me [02:43.76] [02:44.70]Now the night is on the old house and the starlight softly gleams [02:49.69] [02:50.97]As I close the gate behind me and leave the homestead with its dreams