Cattlemen From The High Plains - Slim Dusty

作曲：Ryan Key/Peter Mosely/Sean Mackin/Longineu W Parsons Iii/Benjamin Harper

You may talk of the ringer from Queensland

The big shearing gun from the west

They are men who have proven their value

Whenever they're put to the test

But if you ever look to the mountains

And the south where it snows and it rains

Have you thought of the men from the Snowy

And the cattlemen from the high plains

From the high plains away above Dargo

In the alps where the snow daisy grows

Where the wild mountain herds are grazin'

Beneath the shadow of mountains of snow

Where the cattlemen searched every cranny

When they muster at each summer's end

In their rain batter hats and their oil skins

From the high plains come real cattlemen

They're a part of Australia's hist'ry

Their heritage all be the same

If nobody cares what is happn'nin'

To the cattlemen from the high plains

After one fifty years they can take it

All the hardship the mountains can give

They hand onto each generation

Their caring their live and let live

All the steep mountain tracks and the gullies

Which one knows like the palm of his hand

There's no room here for too many new chumps

In the mountain cattleman's land

So I guess that you'll never believe me

When you hear what they're plannin' to do

Down in town mate they're writin' the law now

That the man from the high plains must go

Take his herds from the mountains and ridges

Leave the land where his forefathers reigned

With the sweep of the pen they want to write out

The cattlemen from the high plains

And we lose a part of our hist'ry

Of our land built through struggle and strain

A bit more of our freedom goes with them

The cattlemen from the high plains

Just a bit more freedom goes with them

The cattlemen from the high plains