The Camel Boy - John Williamson

作曲：John Williamson

They called him Camel Boy

But he was a man

He walked behind us with a billy

He tended the campfire and he made the tea

Drowned in the colours we didn't see

And the ghost gums stand gleaming white

Showed him a paint brush he showed us the light

I apologise for the condescension

Paid no attention to the pain of the Camel Boy

It's Namatjira he became the one

We remember all alone

Under a huge sky with a gentle hand

Painted the pictures of an ancient land

What fools we were what did we mean

Dressed in white to meet the queen

Take down her picture hang up a ghost gum

Put up a landscape by the Camel Boy

'Cause her majesty was in his eye

The 'sleeping lubra' the Aranda sky

I apologise for the condescension

Paid no attention to the pain of the Camel Boy

And the ghost gums stand gleaming white

Showed him a paint brush he showed us the light

Drowned in the colours we didn't see

What a man was he Albert the Camel Boy

Albert the Camel Boy

Namatjira the Camel Boy