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by Slim Dusty
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Here a patch of glassy water; there a glimpse of mystic sky?
Have you heard the still voice calling, yet so warm, and yet so cold:
"I'm the Mother-Bush that bore you! Come to me when you are old"?
Did you see the bush below you, sweeping darkly to the Range,
All unchanged and all unchanging, yet so very old and strange!
Did you hear the bush a-calling, when your heart was young and bold:
"I'm the Mother-bush that nursed you; Come to me when you are old?"
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Through the long and thunderous cutting, and the night train should be still,
Did you hear the grey bush calling from the pine-ridge overhead:
Find more similar lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.com/7Xss"You have seen the seas and cities, all seems done and all seems told,
I'm the Mother-Bush that loves you, come to me now you are old?"
Have you seen the bush by moonlight, from the train, go running by?
Here a patch of glassy water; there a glimpse of mystic sky?
Have you heard the still voice calling, yet so warm, and yet so cold:
"I'm the Mother-Bush that bore you! Come to me now you are old"?
"I'm the Mother-Bush that loves you! Come to me now you are old"?
From his album: "Stories I Wanted to Tell"
Songwriters/Composers: Henry Lawson;
Transcribed: Marten Busstra 2009
Slim Dusty biography
Slim Dusty is known as the ‘Father of Australian Country Music’ and was born on 13 June 1927 as David Gordon Kirkpatrick at Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia. He grew up on his father’s dairy farm at nearby Nulla Nulla Creek and at the young age of 10 he wrote his first song, ‘The Way the Cowboy Dies’
While still working on the family property, Slim sang during intervals at cinemas, at rodeos and community concerts and even did some busking on the streets.. In fact he sang whenever and wherever he could.
In 1942 he gatecrashed radio station 2KM Kempsey to record at his own expense, his first record, “Song for the Aussies” and “My Final Song.” In 1946 he signed a recording contract with Columbia for their Regal Zonophone label and recorded six titles including his first country classic “When the Rain Tumbles down in July”., which he had written the year before. Then in 1948 he began a part time career.....MORE.....(full Slim Dusty biography) ←
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