Slim Dusty – Sing Along With Dad (Guitar)

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We sing along with Dad because we like it

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With an old guitar and squeeze box in between

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and the songs we sing contain a country flavour

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of places in the bush where we have been.

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There's a song I sing about a western drover

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who'd shake your hand and everyone was mate

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and the phantom of the pub, old sharp house  Charlie

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he'd shout for all and put it on the slate

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We sing along with Dad because we like it

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And the good old country songs we love the best

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of places where the gidgee trees are growing

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or the claypans and the sandhills in the west

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I remember when the mailmen broke an axel

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and our food supply and rations they were gone

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but mum she promptly saved the situation

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she shot and for a week we lived on swan

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We sing along with Dad because we like it

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he has taken us through drought and flooded land

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we were born and bred and played the mulgas

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and the songs about the bush we understand

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There's a song about the shearer and the drover

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Or sunsets dipping down beneath the trees

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Where mother nature brings out all her beauty

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and we love the smell gidgee on the breeze

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We sing along with Dad because we like it

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and we know the old bush songs will never die

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and if you chance to be around at sundown

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you may hear the echoes slowly drifting by. All together now!

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We sing along with Dad because we like it

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With an old guitar and squeeze box in between

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and the songs we sing contain a country flavour

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of places in the bush where we have been

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places in the bush where we have been

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places in the bush where we have been