Clean Up Our Own Backyard-Slim Dusty

[ti:Clean Up Our Own Backyard] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:Looking Forward Looking Back] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Clean Up Our Own Backyard - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:09.78]There's an old rhyme that pits [00:11.45]Out time take it for what it's worth [00:14.20] [00:15.21]Things are crook at Tallarook [00:17.40]And there ain't no work in Burke [00:19.50] [00:20.11]But we still find room for the many [00:22.69]Who come a-knockin' at our door [00:25.24]And we sell our wide brown [00:27.01]Acres without a second thought [00:29.85] [00:31.44]Some will say we are building [00:34.69]A nation rich and strong [00:36.37] [00:36.91]But if you take a closer look at [00:39.14]It perhaps we've got it wrong [00:41.64] [00:43.77]Makes you think maybe we're [00:45.26]A bit crazy doing it quite so hard [00:48.09] [00:48.62]Shouldn't be a crime to take the time [00:51.50]To clean up our own backyard [00:53.38] [01:04.19]In the country towns and the land around [01:06.74]In the city streets and slums [01:08.84] [01:09.51]The dreamtime lore has gone before [01:12.00]And the walkabout is done [01:13.98] [01:14.51]On the streets at night you see [01:16.42]The plight of our old ones and our young [01:19.60]And the Salvo refugge overflows [01:22.51]But still the people come [01:24.45] [01:25.95]Just a little drop of caring in [01:28.87]An ocean of neglect [01:30.60] [01:31.25]Can't stem the tide of anger from [01:34.02]The lost and dispossessed [01:35.86] [01:37.72]In the land of promise keepin' [01:39.63]Our promise gets to be too hard [01:42.31] [01:42.89]Shouldn't be a crime to take the time [01:45.66]To clean up our own backyard [01:47.51] [01:58.54]Make you think maybe we're [02:00.08]A bit crazy doing it quite so hard [02:02.67] [02:04.62]Shouldn't be a crime to take the time [02:06.87] [02:07.40]To clean up our own backyard