WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Slim Dusty - The Wave Hill Track Chords | Ver. 1
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My thoughts have often wandered to the days that have gone by
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When I was drovin' bullocks across the Murranji
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Oh-ho-ho, they told me in the Isa, just a short time back
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That no more walking bullocks came down the wave hill track.
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Instead of dusty stock routes, beef roads have been put through
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And the transports do the droving we drovers used to do
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Oh, instead of dusty stockmen with their quart pots on the boil
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They have thermos flasks and overalls soaked in grease and oil
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They don't use bells and hobbles these trucks don't run that way
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They just pull back a lever and they sit there night and day
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There's no more use for windmills to water the traveling mob
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It only takes a billy full to drew the drover’s job
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They don't take loads of tucker like we drovers used to do
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A loaf of bread and tin of jam will feed the transport crew
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Oh, imagine the old-time drovers with their whiskers blowing back
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Steering a giant Leyland down the wave hill track
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But I think we'll best forget it for the trucks now take our place
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And the whiskery faced old drover is just a dyin' race
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So, we'll leave it to the transports and the men with oil and grease
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Forget the old road drover and may he rest in peace
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My thoughts have often wandered to the days that have gone by
A E F# B7
When I was drovin' bullocks across the Murranji
E A E
Oh-ho-ho, they told me in the Isa, just a short time back
A E C7 E
That no more walking bullocks came down the wave hill track.
[Tag]
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Down the wave hill track
