Drover's Boy chords by Tania Kernaghan
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Verse 1
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They couldn't understand
why the drover cried
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As they buried the drover's boy
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For the drover always seemed so hard
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to the men of his employ
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A bolting horse, a stirrup lost,
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and the drover's boy was dead
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A shoveled dirt, a mumbled word,
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and it's back to the road ahead
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And forget about the
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drover's boy
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They couldn't understand
why they drove a cat,
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a lock from the dead boy's hair
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He put it in the band of
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his battered old hat
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as they watched him standing there
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He told them, take the cattle on,
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I'll sit with the boy a while
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The silent thought, the pipe to smoke
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and it's right another mile
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And forget about the drover's
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boy
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They couldn't make out why the drover
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and the boy camped so far away
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For the tall white man and
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the slim black boy
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never had much to say
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And the boy had begun at
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the break of dawn,
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tale of horses carry on
While the drove aroused
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the sleeping man,
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daylight hit the road again
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Follow home, the drove is born
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Follow home, the drove is born
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In the Camel Wheel pub
they talked about the death
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of Bedrova's boy
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They drank their rum with a stranger
who'd come from the
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Kimberley Rum Fitzroy
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And he told of a massacre in
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the west,
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the barest details, guess the rest
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He'd shoot the boys, grab a girl,
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cut her hair, and break her in
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And call her a boy,
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the drover's boy
So when they build that
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Stockman's Hall of Fame
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They talk about the droving game
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Remember the girl who was
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bedmaid and guide
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Rode with the drovers side by side
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And watched the Bullocks,
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played the hide
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Faithful wife, but never a bride
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Bred his sons for
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the cattle run
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Don't weep for the drover's boy
Don't mourn for the drover's boy
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But don't forget the drover's boy
Drover's Boy
Tania Kernaghan
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