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Slim Dusty
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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 copy, to a Darling River town
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He was born in Parramatta and he said with humour grim
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That he'd like to see the city, 'ere the liquor finished him
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But he couldn't raise the money, he was damned if he could think
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What the Government was doing here, he offered me a drink
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I declined, 'twas self-denial and I lectured him on booze
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Using all the hackneyed arguments that preachers mostly use
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Things I'd heard in temperance lectures, I was young and rather green
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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
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But he guessed he'd have to go and get his bottle filled again
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And he gave a lurch and vanished in the darkness and the rain
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Now 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.
Slim Dusty - We've Done Us Proud
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