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[Verse 1]
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It was somewhere in September and the sun was goin' down,
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when I came in search of coffee, to a Darling River town.
A
Come-And-Have-A-Drink we'll call it, 'tis a fitting name I think,
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and 'twas raining, for a wonder, up at Come-And-Have-A-Drink.
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Underneath the pub verandah I was resting on a bunk,
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when a stranger rose before me, and he said that he was drunk.
D A
He apologised for speaking, there was no offence, he swore,
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but he somehow seemed to fancy that he'd seen my face before.
[Verse 2]
D A
He agreed you can't remember all the chaps you chance to meet,
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and he said his name was Sweeney, people lived in Sussex Street.
A
He was camping in a stable, that he swore that he was right,
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only for the blanky horses walkin' over him all night.
G D
He'd apparently been fighting, for his face was black and blue,
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and it looked as though the horses had been treading on him too.
D A
But an honest genial twinkle in the eye that wasn't hurt
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seemed to hint of something better, spite of drink and rags and dirt.
[Verse 3]
D A
He was born in Parramatta and he said with humour grim,
A7 D
that he'd like to see the city, 'ere the liquor finished him.
A
But he couldn't raise the money, he was damned if he could think,
A7 D
what the government was doing here, he offered me a drink.
[Verse 4]
D A
I declined, 'twas self-denial, and I lectured him on booze,
A7 D
using all the hackneyed arguments that preachers mostly use.
A
Things I'd heard in temperance lectures, I was young and rather green,
A7 D
and I ended by referring to the man he might have been.
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But he couldn't stay to argue, for his beer was nearly gone,
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he was glad, he said, to meet me, and he'd see me later on.
D A
But he guessed he'd have to go and get his bottle filled again,
A7 D
and he gave a lurch and vanished in the darkness and the rain.
D A
And of afternoons in cities, when the rain is on the land,
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visions come to me of Sweeney with his bottle in his hand.