Send 'Er Down Hughie!

歌詞

Oh the radio tells me it's raining But that I can see for myself And they tell me a cyclone is coming Oh I surely could do with some help This little old shovel I'm holding Looks puney beside this old Mac She's down to the diff and still going And there's only more mud up the track Oh I've reved and I've rocked and reversed it Oh I've dug at the mud on the wheels I've kicked and I've swore and I've cursed it And to the good Lord I've appealed But the line up to heaven aint open I've a feeling I'm not getting through I'll just have to lighten the load One carton of stubies should do Oh I wonder if ever they'd miss it One carton from all of those tons But I bet you they'd be asking where is it And licking their dry dusty tongues Oh I can picture those miners all dying Of thirst in that drought stricken town While here in the mud I've been trying Striving to put the booze down And in each of these stubbies I empty I insert a small note of distress And cast it adrift in the gully An SOS out of the west How many days have I languished Here in this swamp called a road While in my dispair and my anguish I've been working at lighting the load Perhaps some old fisherman casting His line on the Barrier Reef Will see all these stubbies go past him And come sailing up to my relief And won't we all have such a booze up The best ever seen on this road But I doubt if they ever will choose us To carry their next flaming load So good health to the sand flies and skeeters Good luck to that solmen old frog Oh I'm damned if this rain's going to beat me Thank hell for this truck load of grog Oh send her down Huey you beauty You got the right knack of doing it now All my sorrows have drowned well and truly And there's plenty more booze to put down Ah it's lomesome ah ha