Biography:
David Gordon "Slim Dusty " Kirkpatrick AO, MBE (13 June 1927—19 September 2003) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter and producer, with a career spanning nearly eight decades. He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australian poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson that represented the Australian Bush Lifestyle, and also for his many trucking songs. Dusty was the first Australian to have a No. 1 Hit song with Gordon Parsons (Pub With No Beer).
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Other songs:
- Pub With No Beer
- A Fire Of Gidgee Coal
- Born To Be A Rolling Stone
- Camooweal
- Cattlemen From The High Plains
- Charleville
- Country Revival
- Cunnamulla Feller
- Duncan
- End Of The Canning Stock Route
- Gday Gday
- I Must Have Good Terbaccy When I Smoke
- Indian Pacific
- Innaminka Muster
- Keep The Lovelight Shining
- Lace Up Shoes
- Leave Him In The Long Yard
- Leave Him In The Longyard
- Lights On The Hill
- Little Boy Lost
- Lookin Forward Lookin Back
- Looking Forward Looking Back
- Lookn Forward Lookin Back
- My Pal Alcohol
- Old Time Country Halls
- Plains Of Peppimenarti
- Ringer From The Top End
- Rusty Its Goodbye
- Saddle Boy
- Singer From Down Under
- The Biggest Disappointment
- The Day We Sold The Farm
- Three Rivers Hotel
- Travellers Prayer
- Under The Spell Of Highway One
- Waltzing Matilda
- West Of Winton
- When The Rain Tumbles Down In July
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Written by
Joy McKean
CAPO 4 (I'm pretty sure that's how Slim played it)
[Intro Chords]
D C G D
D
I'm a ringer from the top end
A
Where ya gotta know your job
And what you're doin' each day
On 2 million acres you bet
D
Ya have to earn your pay
If ya wanna take it on
G Em
There's one thing that shouldn't be forgotten
G A
Nobody can do the job
D
Like a ringer from the top end
A
Out on the fence line swallowing dust
E
Blood on my hands from the barb
Hoping that rogue bull won't see the hole
A
Before they get him in the yard
D
But I get a funny feeling in the middle of my back
G Em
Sure enough he's coming like a train down the track
G A
That's when nobody else moves faster
D
Than the springer from the top end
D
I'm a ringer from the top end
A
Where ya gotta muster 3 thousand head in a day
D
Move 'em to the yards and water them at end of day
It's not the sort of job you'd take
G Em
If you're looking for a soft one
G A
But ya take a kinda pride in saying
D
I'm a ringer from the top end
A
Well I roll out my swag 'neath the boab tree
E
And then I'm out like a light
Dreaming about those girls in town
A
Next thing it's broad daylight
D
No time to dream of what might have been
G Em
I'm in a dirty bull catcher with the mustering team
G A
I better keep my mind on the job
D
'Cause I'm a ringer from the top end
G A
And nobody does the job better
D
Than a ringer from the top end
Joy McKean
CAPO 4 (I'm pretty sure that's how Slim played it)
[Intro Chords]
D C G D
D
I'm a ringer from the top end
A
Where ya gotta know your job
And what you're doin' each day
On 2 million acres you bet
D
Ya have to earn your pay
If ya wanna take it on
G Em
There's one thing that shouldn't be forgotten
G A
Nobody can do the job
D
Like a ringer from the top end
A
Out on the fence line swallowing dust
E
Blood on my hands from the barb
Hoping that rogue bull won't see the hole
A
Before they get him in the yard
D
But I get a funny feeling in the middle of my back
G Em
Sure enough he's coming like a train down the track
G A
That's when nobody else moves faster
D
Than the springer from the top end
D
I'm a ringer from the top end
A
Where ya gotta muster 3 thousand head in a day
D
Move 'em to the yards and water them at end of day
It's not the sort of job you'd take
G Em
If you're looking for a soft one
G A
But ya take a kinda pride in saying
D
I'm a ringer from the top end
A
Well I roll out my swag 'neath the boab tree
E
And then I'm out like a light
Dreaming about those girls in town
A
Next thing it's broad daylight
D
No time to dream of what might have been
G Em
I'm in a dirty bull catcher with the mustering team
G A
I better keep my mind on the job
D
'Cause I'm a ringer from the top end
G A
And nobody does the job better
D
Than a ringer from the top end
Slow Club
Slow Hollows
Slow J
Slowdive
Slurpyj