Like A Family To Me - Slim Dusty

作曲：Ernie Constance

Well the best is all behind you

By the time you reach my age in years

And the only luxuries you know

Are a T bone steak and a round or

two of beer

And the roads you know are the

distant tracks

And the bulldust and

The never ending spaces

And the only family you know

Is the smiling friendly outback peoples faces

I've got no family of my own

This old drivers always been

A rolling stone

But there's always someone waiting

Waiting there beyond the saltbush sea

No matter how long I've been gone

They've always got the Billy on

Waiting like a family for me

There's always someone waiting

On a lonely isolated cattle run

Sitting on the stockyard rails

To roll a smoke and watch the setting sun

And we'll shake hands and we'll swap news

Boil the Billy on the coals for tea

By first light I'll be loaded up

Sail again across the saltbush sea

Tomorrow I'll be gone again

Alone with my fully loaded train

The farewells are behind me

And it might be 12 months 'ere I call again

But there's a bond that ties me

To the people of beyond the saltbush sea

It's the bond of the outback

With makes them like a family to me

I've got no family of my own

This old drivers always been

A rolling stone

But there's always someone waiting

Waiting there beyond the saltbush sea

Oh no matter how long I've been gone

They've always got the Billy on

Waiting like a family for me

Waiting like a family for me