Gordon Bok – Shearers Lament (Guitar)

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We finished shearing sheep, out west of the Paroo

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And now it's rained three inches, we don't know what to do

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A week ago the sand was loose, the dust blew every day

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And now the mud is two feet deep and we can't get away

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I've just been talking to the boss, you all know Hector Cope

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He says the Bull is two miles wide, to cross it there's no hope

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You hear a lot of people swear about the dough we make

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But they forget the price of beer and all the combs we break

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It might have been a good job once, those old hands had their breaks

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They pushed a cart from shed to shed and lived on johnnycakes

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They had more time to do the job and they worked nine hours a day

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And after paying for their grub, one pound-a-hundred made

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Now why I took this job on, I just can't understand

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If the bloody sheep ain't waterlogged, the cows are full of sand

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A man is doubled up all day, half-blinded by his sweat

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And when the darkness comes around, cooped up in a mozzie net

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I think I'll give this job away, I'm tired of being greasy

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I've heard about a fencing job, they tell me it's dead easy