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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Slim Dusty West of Winton
Capo 2nd Fret
G D
His eyes were used to distance and he talked much with his hands
D G
I guess he sort of felt hemmed in a stranger to this land
G D
And a lifestyle of another time, another time and place
D G
Was written there deep in the lines of this old bushmans face
G D
His attire was still in keeping with the far out channel lands
D G
There was still a strength of character in his hard old bushman's hands
G D
And his old hat tilted forward was as much a part of him
D G
As the 80 years of livin' that showed, underneath the brim
[Instrumental]
D G
G D
Just somewhere west of Winton mate is where I'd rather be
D G
To ride out in the dawn time, Mitchell to my horses knee
G D
Unroll my swag beside a fire of some long forgotten camp
D G
If I listen close maybe I'll hear a tethered night horse stamp
G D
Just to see again the sunsets as the night falls on the land
D G
Oh the silent sound of beauty makes the proudest heart expand
G D
Where the lights of some old homestead beam a warm and welcome glow
G G
And no travellin' soul went hungry in those days of long ago
[Instrumental]
D G
G D
I see a dried up sandy creek bed when the dry comes much too soon
D G
Watch the wild mob paw for water 'neath an early rising moon
G D
Maybe I'll see the dust cloud rising from the travellin' mob again
D G
Hear the whips crack on the tailers as they cross the open plain
G D
Just somewhere west of Winton mate is where I'd rather be
D G
To ride out in the dawn time, Mitchell to my horses knee
G D
Unroll my swag beside a fire of some long forgotten camp
D G
If I listen close maybe I'll hear a tethered night horse stamp
[Outro]
D G
Capo 2nd Fret
G D
His eyes were used to distance and he talked much with his hands
D G
I guess he sort of felt hemmed in a stranger to this land
G D
And a lifestyle of another time, another time and place
D G
Was written there deep in the lines of this old bushmans face
G D
His attire was still in keeping with the far out channel lands
D G
There was still a strength of character in his hard old bushman's hands
G D
And his old hat tilted forward was as much a part of him
D G
As the 80 years of livin' that showed, underneath the brim
[Instrumental]
D G
G D
Just somewhere west of Winton mate is where I'd rather be
D G
To ride out in the dawn time, Mitchell to my horses knee
G D
Unroll my swag beside a fire of some long forgotten camp
D G
If I listen close maybe I'll hear a tethered night horse stamp
G D
Just to see again the sunsets as the night falls on the land
D G
Oh the silent sound of beauty makes the proudest heart expand
G D
Where the lights of some old homestead beam a warm and welcome glow
G G
And no travellin' soul went hungry in those days of long ago
[Instrumental]
D G
G D
I see a dried up sandy creek bed when the dry comes much too soon
D G
Watch the wild mob paw for water 'neath an early rising moon
G D
Maybe I'll see the dust cloud rising from the travellin' mob again
D G
Hear the whips crack on the tailers as they cross the open plain
G D
Just somewhere west of Winton mate is where I'd rather be
D G
To ride out in the dawn time, Mitchell to my horses knee
G D
Unroll my swag beside a fire of some long forgotten camp
D G
If I listen close maybe I'll hear a tethered night horse stamp
[Outro]
D G
Slow Club
Slow Hollows
Slow J
Slowdive
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