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Have you ever stopped to linger when a clearing sale is done?
And the warmth of that old homestead seems to vanish with the sun
All the bidders have their bargains and the auctioneer is paid
And the twilight wraps the old home in its dreams of yesterday
The gate is swinging open as I take the lonely path
No welcome lights the window no cheery blaze to warm the hearth
And I feel like an intruder as though I walk on sacred ground
Only silence comes to greet me for the shadows make no sound
Thereâs a rocker in a corner but it wonât rock no more
Thereâs a lucky horseshoe hanging still on a nail above the door
I step upon a childâs toy hell, a broken tip truck red and blue
Oh I seem to hear a child laugh maybe you can hear it too?
I see my own reflection in a mirror on the wall
And a picture of a horse team lies forgotten in the hall
Just a few things no one bid for and now theyâre set aside at last
Like the memories of the homestead now theyâll slip into the past
I wonder how the old man felt to see his tractor go?
And it must have hurt the old wife, though sheâd never let it show
To see the things she had a lifetime now pass into other hands
No a clearing salesâ not easy friends when itâs time to leave the land
Just a few discarded relics of the days that used to be
And I leave them as I found them for what could they mean to me
Now the night is on the old house and the starlight softly gleams
As I close the gate behind me and leave the homestead with its dreams
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- Tall Stories And Sad Songs
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- 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