Slim Dusty – The Dying Stockman (Guitar)

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A strapping young stockman lay dying,

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his saddle supporting his head,

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all around him his comrades were standing,

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when he raised on his pillow and said:

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'Wrap me up with my stockwhip and blanket,

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and bury me deep down below,

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where the dingoes and crows can't molest me,

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in the shade where the coolibahs grow.

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'Then cut down a couple of saplings,

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Place one at my head and my toe,

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Carve on them stockwhip and saddle,

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Just to show there's a stockman below.

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'Wrap me up with my stockwhip and blanket,

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and bury me deep down below,

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where the dingoes and crows can't molest me,

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in the shade where the coolibahs grow.

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Give one guy my saddle and blanket,

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give Billy my bullets of lead,

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these two dark friends of my childhood

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may remember a stockman’s last bed.

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'Wrap me up in my stockwhip and blanket,

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and bury me deep down below,

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where the dingoes and crows can't molest me,

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in the shade where the coolibahs grow.

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'There's tea in the battered old billy,

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place the pannikins out in a row,

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and we'll drink to the next merry meeting,

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in the land where all good stockmen go.

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'Wrap me up with my stockwhip and blanket,

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and bury me deep down below,

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where the dingoes and crows can't molest me,

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in the shade where the coolibahs grow.

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Hi lee oh layee

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oudle layee dee, oudle layee dee.