Slim Dusty – Camooweal (Guitar)

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Should ever I go back to Camooweal,

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T'would be in the spring when desert flowers bloom.

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And the desert pea would brighten up the gloom

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Should ever I go back to Camooweal

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One thing is sure I'd not be twenty-two,

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As if that day when I first wandered there,

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But mem'ries stay with me as mem'ries do.

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How fresh her mem'ry keeps for still I feel

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The velvet softness of her auburn hair,

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As I did so long ago when I was there.

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Youth called to youth in that now distant day.

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I did not heed, my heart did not reveal,

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And now I know that love was born and lost

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In that little border town of Camooweal.

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Oh, the long road beckoned on, my feet said go

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To search beyond the hills for what I'd find.

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I've never found what I have left behind.

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Oh the burning fire of that other spring

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Is now but ashes, and the hurt won't heal

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Time heals all wounds they say, but leaves the scar,

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So I think I'll not go back to Camooweal,

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Time heals all wounds they say, but leaves the scar

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So I think I'll not go back to Camooweal.

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No, I think I'll not go back to Camooweal.