Click Go the Shears-John Kane

[ti:Click Go the Shears] [ar:John Kane] [al:The Ultimate Australian Songbook] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Click Go the Shears - John Kane [00:04.97]Out on the board the old shearer stands [00:08.03] [00:08.58]Grasping his shears in his thin bony hands [00:11.79] [00:12.30]Fixed is his gaze on a bare bellied yoe [00:15.99]Glory if he gets her won't he make the ringer go [00:19.17] [00:19.69]Click go the shears boys click click click [00:22.85] [00:23.40]Wide is his blow and his hands move quick [00:26.55] [00:27.13]The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow [00:30.37] [00:30.88]And curses the old snagger with the bare bellied Joe [00:33.96] [00:38.09]In the middle of the floor in his cane bottomed chair [00:41.74]Is the boss of the board with eyes everywhere [00:45.09] [00:45.67]Notes well each fleece as it comes to the screen [00:48.88] [00:49.41]Paying strict attention that it's taken off clean [00:52.53] [00:53.10]Click go the shears boys click click click [00:56.23] [00:56.85]Wide is his blow and his hands move quick [00:59.99] [01:00.56]The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow [01:03.71] [01:04.27]And curses the old snagger with the bare bellied yoe [01:07.41] [01:11.74]The tar boy is there awaiting in demand [01:14.86] [01:15.48]With his blackened tar pot and his tarry hand [01:18.54] [01:19.17]Sees one old sheep with a cut upon its back [01:22.24] [01:22.81]Hears what he's waiting for tar here Jack [01:25.96] [01:26.64]Click go the shears boys click click click [01:29.77] [01:30.41]Wide is his blow and his hands move quick [01:33.45] [01:34.00]The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow [01:37.19] [01:37.73]And curses the old snagger with the bare bellied yoe [01:41.02] [01:45.22]Shearing is all over and we've all got our cheques [01:48.87]Roll up your swags boys top from the tracks [01:52.60]The first pub we come to it's there we'll have a spree [01:55.78] [01:56.36]And everyone that comes along it's come and drink with me [01:59.57] [02:00.13]Click go the shears boys click click click [02:03.22] [02:03.79]Wide is his blow and his hands move quick [02:06.93] [02:07.45]The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow [02:11.20]And curses the old snagger with the bare bellied yoe [02:14.39] [02:18.79]There we leave him standing shouting for all hands [02:22.44]Whilst all around him every shouter stands [02:25.64] [02:26.30]His eyes are on the cask which is now lowering fast [02:29.86]He works hard he drinks hard and goes to hell at last [02:33.65]Click go the shears boys click click click [02:36.68] [02:37.30]Wide is his blow and his hands move quick [02:40.40] [02:40.94]The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow [02:44.17] [02:44.67]And curses the old snagger with the bare bellied yoe