Truthful Fella-Slim Dusty

[ti:Truthful Fella] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:West Of Winton] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Truthful Fella - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:13.56]I was born up in the mountains out where the snakes grow legs [00:17.00] [00:17.59]Where the wallabies all speak English and the kookaburras lay square eggs [00:20.67] [00:22.34]I shaved my beard and whiskers off at the ripe old age of two [00:25.66] [00:26.21]And then I straightened out my dad and drank his best home brew [00:29.71] [00:31.02]Oh I'm a truthful fella I was born in broken hill [00:34.10] [00:34.75]I've never told a falsehood and you bet I never will [00:37.95] [00:47.91]Now once when I was a flyer and in my aeroplane [00:51.94]I flew out west to birdsville then I started back again [00:55.04] [00:56.89]When I got half way over the blasted motor balked [00:59.76] [01:00.36]So I left the jolly thing stuck up there [01:02.37]And I just got out and walked [01:03.68] [01:05.00]Oh I'm a truthful fella I was born in broken hill [01:08.29] [01:09.02]I've never told a falsehood and you bet I never will [01:12.26] [01:31.57]Now once when I was fishing up north in kakadu [01:34.95] [01:35.56]By crocodiles I was captured and those scalies ate my crew [01:38.68] [01:40.21]But I downed a bottle of op rum that really is good stuff [01:43.85]Then the crocodiles all swam away because I looked to tough [01:47.26] [01:48.64]Oh I'm a truthful fella I was born in broken hill [01:51.99] [01:52.64]I've never told a falsehood and you bet I never will [01:55.79] [02:09.69]Once more when I was fishing out on the ocean blue [02:13.05] [02:13.68]I had a prawn upon my line he was such a beauty too [02:16.92] [02:18.45]But a whale came up and grabbed the bait [02:20.33]And I said immediately here's a show [02:22.18]And I would have got that whale you see [02:23.92]But the bloody old prawn let go [02:25.25] [02:26.70]Oh I'm a truthful fella I was born in broken hill [02:30.07] [02:30.71]I've never told a falsehood and you bet I never will [02:33.88] [02:35.01]Oh I was raised up in the mountains out where the snakes grow legs [02:38.59] [02:39.22]Where the wallabies all speak English and the kookaburras lay square eggs [02:42.42] [02:43.83]And if you don't believe me you can ask my uncle peach [02:47.19] [02:47.74]He drove a herd of cattle once to tassie round the beach yeah [02:51.35] [02:52.25]Oh I'm a truthful fella I was born in broken hill [02:55.53] [02:56.24]I've never told a falsehood and you bet I never will