Tonalità: E major
Verse 1
F#
It was somewhere in September
C#
and the sun was goin' down
When I came in search of copy,
F#
to a Darling River town
Come- And- Have- A- Drink we'll call it,
C#
'tis a fitting name I think
And 'twas raining, for a wonder,
up at Come- And- Have- A- Drink
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Verse 2
B
Underneath the pub verandah
F#
I was resting on a bunk
G#
When a stranger rose before me,
C#
and he said that he was drunk
F#
He apo logised for speaking,
C#
there was no offence he swore
But he somehow seemed to fancy
F#
that he'd seen my face before
He agreed you can't remember all
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the chaps you chance to meet
And he said his name was Sweeney,
people lived in Sussex Street
F#
Verse 3
He was camping in a stable,
C#
that he swore that he was right
Only for the blanky horses
F#
walkin' over him all night
B
He'd apparently been fighting,
F#
for his face was black and blue
G#
And it looked as though the horses
had been treading on him too
C#
Verse 4
F#
But an honest genial twinkle in the
C#
eye that wasn't hurt
Seemed to hint of something better,
F#
C#
F#
spite of drink and rags and dirt
He was born in Parramatta and
C#
he said with humour grim
That he'd like to see the city,
F#
'ere the liquor finished him
But he couldn't raise the money,
C#
he was damned if he could think
What the Government was doing here,
he offered me a drink
F#
Verse 5
I declined, 'twas self- denial and
C#
I lectured him on booze
Using all the hackneyed arguments
F#
that preachers mostly use
Things I'd heard in temperance lectures,
C#
I was young and rather green
And I ended by referring to
the man he might have been
F#
Verse 6
B
But he couldn't stay to argue,
F#
for his beer was nearly gone
G#
He was glad, he said, to meet me,
C#
and he'd see me later on
F#
But he guessed he'd have to go
C#
and get his bottle filled again
And he gave a lurch and vanished
F#
in the darkness and the rain
Verse 7
F#
Now of afternoons in cities,
C#
when the rain is on the land
Visions come to me of Sweeney,
F#
B
with his bottle in his hand.
F#
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