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A.L. Lloyd - Hard Tack (The Great Australian Legend, 1971) | Текст песни

I'm a shearer, yes, I am, and I've shorn both sheep and lamb,
From the Wimmera to the Darling Downs and back.
And I've run a shed or two when the fleece was tough as glue,
But I'll tell you where I struck the 'hardest tack.

I was down round Yenda way, killin' time from day to day,
Till the big sheds started movin' further out,
When I met a bloke by chance that I summed up at a glance,
As a cocky from a vineyard round about.

Now it seems he picked me too - well, it wasn't hard to do,
'Cause I had me tongs a-hangin' at me hip.
“Well, I got a mob,” he said, “just about two hundred head,
And I'd give a ten pound note to get the clip.”

I says, “Right, I'll take the stand;” it meant gettin' in me hand,
And by nine o'clock we'd rounded up the mob
In a shed sunk in the ground with wine-casks all around;
And that was where I started on me job.

I goes easy for a bit whilst me hand was gettin' fit,
And by dinner time I'd done about a score,
With the cockie pickin' up, and handin' me a cup
Of pinkie after every sheep I shore.

Well, he had to go away about the seventh day,
After showin' me the kind of casks to use.
Then I'd do the pickin' up, and manipulate the cup,
Strollin' round them wine-casks just to pick and choose.

Then I'd stagger to the pen, grab a sheep and start again,
With a sound between an 'iccup and a sob,
And sometimes I'd fall asleep with me arms around a sheep,
Worn and weary from me over-arduous job.

And so six weeks went by, till one day, with a sigh,
I shoved the dear old cobbler through the door,
I gathered in the cocky's pay, and staggered on me way
From the hardest flamin' shed I'd ever shorn.

Glossary

tongs
hand shears
pickin' up
picking up and baling the fleeces as they are shorn
pinkie
wine
cobbler
last sheep to be shorn

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