Old Time Country Halls - Slim Dusty

作曲：Bernie Lynch

As I pick up my guitar

to sing another song

I hear the walls of this old hall

You've done this thing too long

You know you've been around for years

I guess you've shown us all

I talk like this when I reminisce

with an old time country hall

I joined a tent show as a kid

with a dream and an old guitar

The Silvers All Star Cavalcade

and Dandy was the star

He taught me lots about the game

today I understand

He was a great magician

Dandy was a fine old man

I'm a howlin' cattlehand crooner

I'm an old time dinosaur

Hey let me sing where the rafters ring

In an old time country hall that's right

I've been on the road for thirty years

but Dandy could double that

And you'll find his faded poster

still in some hall way out back

I like to go back stage

and dream sometimes and just recall

The shows I've had the good

and bad shared with these country halls

Take the old Town Hall Kalgoorlie

with it's old time charm and grace

And your mounting million

complexes never will replace

All glass and steal and concrete

some large and some too small

So let me sing where the rafters

ring in an old time country hall hey

We showed last night in the school of arts

and the town was real rundown

You'll find so many towns like

that today as you move around

Yeah the wind of change is blowin' up

such an economic low

The old time shows we used to know

will soon be off the road

I'm a howlin' cattlehand crooner

I'm an old time dinosaur

Hey let me sing where the rafters ring

In an old time country hall

In an old time country hall

In an old time country hall