NINE MILES FROM GUNDAGAI (AUSTRALIANA)

NINE MILES FROM GUNDAGAI (AUSTRALIANA)

I'm used to drivin' bullock teams
Across the hills and plains
I've teamed outback these forty years
In blazin' droughts and rains
I've lived a heap of troubles through,
Without a bloomin' lie
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.