John Williamson – The Last Of The Pioneers (Guitar)

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His the last of the pioneers he has no fixed address

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Just a caravan and a campfire in the last of the widerness

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And his songs will keep on ringing in the never never night

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And the man will be a legend to the black man and the white

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His got a head that would break your knuckles and a thumb that could break a string

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As he thumbs an introduction they wait to hear him sing

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Theyve come in from the missions where u thought all life woud end

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All hanging off in truck loads to hear the black mans friend

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Just an old hillbilly from wayback who came from the dust and the heat to do a show

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Wat keeps the old bloke going only the winds of the outback would know

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And his lady love reminds him the doctor said his heart wouldnt take the load

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But she knows her man is hellbent to go out singing on the road

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Four tyres a day to get there and a broken trailer spring

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But that wont stop a bushman cause he carries everything

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He picks his months for heading north cause its fatal in the wet

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But if theres a way to get there he hasnt failed them yet

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He''ll set up on a trailer or verandah of a pub

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Or even throw up a tent on the dirt out in the scrub

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It really makes no difference they come from miles around

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To see him in the town hall or out there on the ground

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Just an old hillbilly from wayback who came from the dust and the heat to do a show

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Wat keeps the old bloke going only the winds of the outback would know

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And his lady love reminds him the doctor said his heart wouldnt take the load

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But she knows her man is hellbent to go out singing on the road

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Hes a hard man on the road say the players from his band

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Some of them are known today as the greatest in the land

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They respect wat hes been doing for 40 years or so

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Taking music to our people where a warragul wouldnt go

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Just an old hillbilly from wayback who came from the dust and the heat to do a show

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Wat keeps the old bloke going only the winds of the outback would know

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And his lady love reminds him that the doctor said his heart wouldnt take the load

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But she knows her man is hellbent to go out singing on the road

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But she knows her man is hellbent to go out singing on the road