Cattle Camp Reverie(1996 Digital Remaster; 1974 Version) - Slim Dusty

作曲：Gary Sharkie/Lisa Chilcott

There's a rustle through the tree tops

as the night wind softly sighs

The cattle rest and the bushland

is so still

From the distance comes the jingle

of the horses hobble chains

As they graze the grass

round about at will

Then I gaze into the embers

of my dying campfires glow

And the pictures that I see there

make me frown

For they come along and taunt me

what I might have been and done

When the cattle are all bedded

and the horses hobbled down

I was once a horseman

a rider of renown

Who loved it all the glamour

and the glare

The handshakes and the backslaps

And the false friends that you meet

But when the heart is young

then everything seems fair

A home of friendly neighbours

with kiddies running round

I threw away to wear a tinsel crown

And they always come and taunt me

as I sit alone at night

When the cattle are all bedded

and the horses hobbled down

For as you grow older

and must give the game away

You're just a name

that blazed awhile ago

And the friends

you've made have left you

for another name that's new

Then you take to droving cattle

it's the only job you know

Then by some lonely fireside

you'll be dreaming all alone

Whilst the boys are having fun

they're back in town

I know because I'm here tonight

with a lifetime to regret

When the cattle are all bedded

and the horses hobbled down

There's a rustle through the tree tops

as the night wind softly sighs

The old campfire has burned

into the ground

And my dreams have slowly drifted

like the smoke into the trees

When the cattle are all bedded

and the horses hobbled down