Slim Dusty – Old Gilbert (Guitar)

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Gilbert was just eighteen years of age when he first took himself a wife

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But she proved to be unfaithful, so the swag and open road became his life

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He turned bitter against all women, only used them when he could

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and he only had contempt for other men

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He worked and drank and wandered all alone except for one,

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a mangy old blue heeler, for a friend

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Years ago, old Gilbert found a puppy by the roadside left to die

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Hungry and frightened, nearly frozen ′neath the frosty southern sky

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Gilbert picked him up and raised him, and a bond of friendship grew

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a friendship that was never known to bend

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Then one day, Gilbert woke to find his old track mate was gone

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and he began a search that never was to end

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Gilbert used to work a while, and then he'd go to town on one big   spree

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For it was the only way he knew to ease the pain of hurtful memories

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So in a coastal town while Gilbert drank away his cares

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His old dog was impounded there, and so

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When they couldn′t find it's owner, the dog was put to sleep

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And perhaps it's best if Gilbert never knows

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Gilbert roamed from town to town still searching for the friend he′d never find

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Oh, it was the final blow from fate that really turned the old man′s twisted mind

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He was ridiculed in barrooms; he was laughed at in the streets

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Still searching for his friend across the land

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'Til someone found him dead one day ′neath a table in a park

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With a collar and a chain clutched in his hand

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Years ago, old Gilbert found a puppy by the roadside left to die

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Hungry and frightened, nearly frozen ′neath the frosty southern sky

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Gilbert picked him up and raised him, and a bond of friendship grew

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a friendship that was never known to bend

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Then one day, Gilbert woke to find his old track mate was gone

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and he began a search that death could end