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[00:00.58]The Drover’s Ballad - Elton John
[00:22.86]From the sunburnt plains of far off North Australia
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[00:28.49]Came a fella born to ride the wide brown land
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[00:34.21]Oh he grew up running wild
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[00:36.98]But soon by all was styled
[00:39.77]As the country's greatest-ever droving man
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[00:45.49]Oh his legend rode the winds from Broome to Darwin
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[00:50.99]They loved and loathed him right from end to end
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[00:56.62]For when the drover gave his heart
[00:59.46]To a girl whose skin was dark
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[01:02.43]From that day on he was no white man's friend
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[01:08.06]So goes The Drover's story,
[01:10.38]you'll hear it near and far
[01:13.50]And in the end it's all he'll ever own
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[01:18.83]It says the outcast is a free man
[01:22.13]If he sleeps under the stars
[01:24.84]Makes the blanket of the southern skies his home
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[01:33.61]Then they called him up to fight for Mother England
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[01:39.11]In a far off war that spilled his brother's blood
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[01:45.15]Inside the jaws of Hell
[01:47.54]Where both his brothers fell
[01:50.15]He just watched his faith in man die in the mud
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[01:55.99]There was no hero's welcome for The Drover
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[02:01.70]Just a country that had turned its back on him
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[02:07.31]When he came home from the war
[02:10.12]His sick wife, they would not cure
[02:12.81]They let her die, for the colour of her skin
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[02:18.69]So goes The Drover's story,
[02:21.31]you'll hear it near and far
[02:24.09]And in the end it's all he'll ever own
[02:28.11]
[02:29.16]It says the outcast is a free man
[02:32.69]If he sleeps under the stars
[02:34.90]
[02:35.46]Makes the blanket of the southern skies his home
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[03:12.87]The Drover is a man of constant shadows
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[03:18.20]Haunted by his pain, his past and name
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[03:23.54]For every mile he rides
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[03:26.51]What he cannot hide,
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[03:29.29]Is the longing in his heart to love again
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[03:34.85]So goes The Drover's story,
[03:37.62]you'll hear it near and far
[03:39.74]
[03:40.32]And in the end it's all he'll ever own
[03:44.32]
[03:45.41]It says the outcast is a free man
[03:48.97]If he sleeps under the stars
[03:51.12]
[03:51.87]Makes the blanket of the southern skies his home
[03:56.46]
[04:00.81]blanket of the southern skies his home
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[04:08.89]his home