Castlereagh

词:Banjo Patterson

曲:Susanne Kalweit

I'm riding down the Castlereagh, and I'm a station hand

I'm handy with the roping pole, I'm handy with the brand

And I can ride a rowdy colt or swing an axe all day

But there's no demand for a station-hand along the Castlereagh.

So shift, boys, shift

For there isn't the slightest doubt

It's time to make a move to the stations further out

So I saddled up my packhorse and I whistled to my dog

I made for up the country at the old jig-jog.

I asked a cove for shearing once along the Marthaguy

"We shear non-union here," said he. "I call it scab," said I

I looked along the shearing floor before I turned to go

There were fifty bloody cabbies and there was a shearing in a row.

So, shift, boys, shift

For there wasn't the slightest doubt

It's time to take a move with the leprosy about

So I saddled up my packhorse and I whistled on my dog

Made for up the country at the old jig-jog.

I went to lllawcrra where my brother has a farm

He has to ask his landlord's leave before he lifts an arm

The landlord owns the countryside, man, woman, dog and cat

And they haven't the cheek to dare to speak without they touch their hat.

So, shift, boys, shift

For there wasn't the slightest doubt

Their little landlord god and I would soon have fallen out

So I saddled up my packhorse and I whistled to my dog

And I made for up the country at the old jig-jog.