To An Old Mate(1996 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty

作曲：Slim Dusty/Henry Lawson

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 overseas 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

To 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 overseas together

For the sake of our friendship and you