Nine Miles from Gundagai



SOURCE: Bob Pfeffer



SOURCE'S SOURCE: Michael Cooney



COMMENTS: Maybe Ewan McColl?



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I'm used to drivin' bullock teams across the hills and plains

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I've teamed outback these forty years in blazin' droughts and rains

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I've lived a heap of troubles through, without a bloomin' lie

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But I can't forget what happened me nine miles from Gundagai



"Twas gettin' dark, the team got bogged, the axle snapped in two

I lost me matches and me pipe, now what was I to do?

The rains come down, 'twas bitter cold, and hungry too was I

And the dog shat in the tucker-box nine miles from Gundagai



Some blokes I know has all the luck no matter how they fall

But there was I, Lord love a duck, no flamin' luck at all

I couldn't make a pot of tea nor keep me trousers dry

And the dog shat in the tucker-box nine miles from Gundagai



I could forgive the blinkin' tea, I could forgive the rain

I could forgive the dark and cold, and go through it again

I could forgive me rotten luck, but hang me till I die

I won't forgive that bloody dog nine miles from Gundagai



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