Unknown - Nine Miles From Gundagai Lyrics

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