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Thereâs a rustle through the tree tops as the night wind softly sighs
The cattle rest and the bushland is so still
From the distance comes the jingle of the horses hobble chains
As they graze the grass round about at will
Then I gaze into the embers of my dying campfires glow
And the pictures that I see there make me frown
For they come along and taunt me what I might have been and done
When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down
I was once a horseman, a rider of renown
Who loved it all the glamour and the glare
The handshakes and the backslaps
And the false friends that you meet
But when the heart is young then everything seems fair
A home of friendly neighbours with kiddies running round
I threw away to wear a tinsel crown
And they always come and taunt me as I sit alone at night
When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down
For as you grow older and must give the game away
Youâre just a name that blazed awhile ago
And the friends youâve made have left you for another name thatâs new
Then you take to droving cattle itâs the only job you know
Then by some lonely fireside youâll be dreaming all alone
Whilst the boys are having fun theyâre back in town
I know because Iâm here tonight with a lifetime to regret
When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down
Thereâs a rustle through the tree tops as the night wind softly sighs
The old campfire has burned into the ground
And my dreams have slowly drifted like the smoke into the trees
When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down
- Album:
- Columbia Lane - The Last Sessions
- Where Country Is
- Tall Stories And Sad Songs
- Looking Forward Looking Back
- Lights On The Hill
- Rodeo Riders
- Trucks On The Track
- Ringer From The Top End
- The Man Who Steadies The Lead
- Cattle Camp Crooner
- The Slim Dusty Family Live Across Australia
- The Slim Dusty Family Album
- Slim Dusty Live
- The Son of Noisy Dan
- Dinki-Di Aussies
- To Whom It May Concern
- Slim Dusty Sings Joy McKean
- Slim Dusty Sings Stan Coster
- Songs From Down Under
- Way Out There