To An Old Mate - Slim Dusty

作曲：Henry Lawson/Slim Dusty

Old mate in the gusty old weather

When our hopes and our

troubles were new

In the years spent in wearing out leather

I found you unselfish and true

I have gathered these for as as together

For the sake of our friendship and you

You may think for a while

and with reason

Though still with a kindly regret

That I've left it for late in the season

Prove I remember you yet

But you'll never judge me

by their treason

Who prop thy friends and forget

I can still feel the spirit that bore us

And often the old stars will shine

I remember the last spree in corus

For the sake of that other lang syne

When the tracks lay divided before us

Your path through the

future and mine

Through the frost wind

that cuts like whip lashes

Through the ever blind

haze of the drought

And in fancier times by the flashes

Of light in the darkness of death

I have followed the tent

poles and ashes

Of camps that we moved further out

You will find in these pages a trace of

That side of our past that was bright

And recognize something the face of

A friend who has dropped out of sight

Oh I send them along in the place of

The letters I promised to write yeah

Old mate in the gusty old weather

When our hopes

and our troubles were new

In the years spent in

wearing out leather

I found you unselfish and true

I have gathered these

for as as together

For the sake of our friendship

and you better

I found