The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #168402 Message #4076723
Posted By: Stewie
24-Oct-20 - 10:00 PM
Thread Name: Mudcat Australia-New Zealand Songbook
Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat Songbook - Australia
THE FLASH STOCKMAN (Anon)
I'm a stockman to me trade and they call me Ugly Dave I'm old and grey and only got one eye In the yard I'm good, of course, but just put me on a horse I'll go where lots of young 'uns daren't try
I've led 'em through the gidgee over country rough and ridgy I'll loose them in the very worst of scrub I can ride both rough and easy, with a brumby I'm a daisy And a rightdown bobby-dazzler in a pub
Just watch me use the whip, I can give the dawdlers gyp I can make the flamin' echoes roar and ring With a branding-iron, well, I'm a perfect flamin' swell In fact I'm duke of every blasted thing
To watch me skin a sheep, it's so perfect you could weep I can act the silvertail as if my blood was blue You could strike me pink or dead, if I stood upon me head I'd be just as good as any other two
I've a notion in me pate that it's luck, it isn't fate That I'm so far above the common run So, in everything I do, you could cut me square in two For I'm much two flamin' good to be in one