Slim Dusty – Cattlemen From The High Plains (Guitar)

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You may talk of the ringer from Queensland,

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The big shearing gun from the west,

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Whenever they're put to the test,

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But if you ever looked to the mountains,

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And the south where it snows and it rains,

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Have you thought of the men from the Snowy,

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And the cattlemen from the high plains.

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From the high plains away above Dargo

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In the alps where the snow daisy grows.

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Where the wild mountain herds are grazin'

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Beneath the shadow of mountains of snow,

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Where the cattlemen search every cranny,

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When they muster at each summer's end,

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In their rain batter hats and their oil skins,

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From the high plains, come real cattlemen,

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They're a part of Australia's history,

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Their heritage all be the same,

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If nobody cares what is happening,

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To the cattlemen from the high plains.

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After one fifty years they can take it,

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All the hardship the mountains can give,

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Their caring, their live and let live,

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All the steep mountain tracks and the gullies,

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Which one knows like the palm of his hand,

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There's no room here for too many new chums

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In the mountain cattleman's land.

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So I guess that you'll never believe me,

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When you hear what they're plannin' to do,

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Down in town, mate, they're writin' the law now,

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That the man from the high plains must go,

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Take his herds from the mountains and ridges,

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Leave the land where his forefathers reigned,

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With the sweep of the pen they want to write out,

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The cattlemen from the high plains,

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They're a part of Australia's history,

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Their heritage all be the same,

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If nobody cares what is happening,

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To the cattlemen from the high plains.

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Just a bit more freedom goes with them,

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...plains.