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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The Day We Sold The Farm
By Slim Dusty
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
5/26/2013
G D
City Lights are cold tonight, they make a man feel small
D C D
To me they say you can work all day with no return at all
G C
And so I dream of a mountain stream lit by a pearly dawn
C G D G
I've never lost the feeling for the place where I was born
G D
Highway life gets in your sights and soon ambitions grow
D C D
Till business clowns start coming round with easy foreign loans
G C
It's their disguise to look surprised as your feet just leave the ground
C G D G
Next thing and auction day is set, the banks have closed it down
D C G
And I'm heading over mountains down the slopes of brown and green
D C D
My family's farmed for a 100 years, those valleys in between
G C
And yes I used to curse those hills and the rain when I was young
C G D G
Oh I never saw their charm till the day we sold the farm
C G
And I never thought that I'd be bought and sold on Market Day
A7 D
They gave away a lifetime with the cattle and the hay
G C
And the thistles by the riverside and the bracken on the run
C G D G
No I never saw their charm till the day we sold the farm
G D
Now tourists stroll round eighteen holes where fruit tree used to grow
D C D
Accountants talk while farmers walk with nowhere else to go
G C
If there's work around in the local town they might be hanging on
C G D G
While trying to find a way back to the place where they belong
C G
And I never thought that I'd be bought and sold on Market Day
A7 D
They gave away a lifetime with the cattle and the hay
G C
And the thistles by the riverside And the bracken on the run
C G D G
No I never saw their charm till the day we sold the farm
D C G
So I'm heading over mountains down the slopes of brown and green
D C D
Trying to find a way back to what once belonged to me
G C
Oh how I used to curse those hills And the rain when I was young
C G D G
No I never saw their charm till the day we sold the farm
By Slim Dusty
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
5/26/2013
G D
City Lights are cold tonight, they make a man feel small
D C D
To me they say you can work all day with no return at all
G C
And so I dream of a mountain stream lit by a pearly dawn
C G D G
I've never lost the feeling for the place where I was born
G D
Highway life gets in your sights and soon ambitions grow
D C D
Till business clowns start coming round with easy foreign loans
G C
It's their disguise to look surprised as your feet just leave the ground
C G D G
Next thing and auction day is set, the banks have closed it down
D C G
And I'm heading over mountains down the slopes of brown and green
D C D
My family's farmed for a 100 years, those valleys in between
G C
And yes I used to curse those hills and the rain when I was young
C G D G
Oh I never saw their charm till the day we sold the farm
C G
And I never thought that I'd be bought and sold on Market Day
A7 D
They gave away a lifetime with the cattle and the hay
G C
And the thistles by the riverside and the bracken on the run
C G D G
No I never saw their charm till the day we sold the farm
G D
Now tourists stroll round eighteen holes where fruit tree used to grow
D C D
Accountants talk while farmers walk with nowhere else to go
G C
If there's work around in the local town they might be hanging on
C G D G
While trying to find a way back to the place where they belong
C G
And I never thought that I'd be bought and sold on Market Day
A7 D
They gave away a lifetime with the cattle and the hay
G C
And the thistles by the riverside And the bracken on the run
C G D G
No I never saw their charm till the day we sold the farm
D C G
So I'm heading over mountains down the slopes of brown and green
D C D
Trying to find a way back to what once belonged to me
G C
Oh how I used to curse those hills And the rain when I was young
C G D G
No I never saw their charm till the day we sold the farm
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