Текст песни с аккордами
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|| Chords relative to Capo 2.
[Intro]
F
[Verse]
F C7
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
F
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,
C7
He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
F
Just 'on spec', addressed as follows, 'Clancy, of The Overflow'.
[Verse]
F C7
And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,
F
And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar
C7
'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:
F
'Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.'
[Verse]
F C7
In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy
F
Gone a-droving 'down the Cooper' where the Western drovers go;
C7
As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing,
F
"For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know."
[Verse]
G D
And the bush has friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him
G
In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,
D
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
G
And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars.
[Verse]
G D
And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle
G
Of the tramways and the 'buses making hurry down the street,
D
And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting,
G
Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.
[Verse]
G D
And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me
G
As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,
D
With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy,
G
For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.
[Verse]
A E
And I somehow rather fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy,
A
Like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go,
E
While he faced the round eternal of the cash-book and the journal
A
But I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy, of 'The Overflow'.
[Verse]
A E
In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy
A
Gone a-droving 'down the Cooper' where the Western drovers go;
E
As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing,
N.C. A
"For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know."
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