Slim Dusty – Give My Regards To Edna (Guitar)

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When you’re passing through Mt Isa, don't forget to take the time,

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To go around, old mate, an' meet a real good friend of mine.

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Do not look in beauty parlours or the modern fashion stores,

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You'll find her at the sale yards loading fats or dipping stores.

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She's as hard an’ tough as greenhide with a heart of solid gold,

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Educated on the stock routes in the droving days of old.

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Taking night watch, tailing horses on the famous Murranji,

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Living close to God and nature, where the wedgetail eagles fly.

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Oh, her father was a teacher and he put her to the test,

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In the college of the stockmen on the big camps in the west.

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She can educate a young horse in a firm but gentle way,

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Just like her father taught her on the stock routes in his day.

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And she takes a lot of shifting from a Barcoo poley seat.

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In a fair go on a bucker, oh, she’s pretty hard to beat.

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And in the rodeo arena at the Isa every year,

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With the pickup men she’s working, shifting stock and tending gear. Hey!

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She can ply the awl an' needles, she can use the shoein’ gear,

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And when the days work's over, mate, she’ll join you in a beer.

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Well respected by the bushmen, all through the northern line,

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She's a credit to her father from the old stock riding line.

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She has known the joys and sorrows, Of a mother and a wife,

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And it mostly is the good who are the losers in this life.

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So when you meet her she will greet you with a handshake rough and hard,

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And don't forget to tell her, mate, that I send my best regards.

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Yes, mate, don't forget to tell her, that I send my best regards.