Slim Dusty - Old Men's Home lyrics

rate me

White fences surround me on every side

A home for the old men is where I reside

I've nothin but memories of days when I roamed

At ease in the saddle that once was my home

I know that my days of wild living are done

Of riding wild horses on far cattle runs

Of droving or shearing well those days are behind

And all I want now is contentment of mind

There are so many things that bring memories so plain

Like the whistle at evening of an outgoing train

Or that old country ballad with a strummin guitar

Oh I long for the bushland way out there so far

Now they say it's self pity when I get the blues

But life heres so different to what I've been used

I've lived since my boyhood on mountains and plains

And it hurts when you know you'll not see them again

My relatives brought me away from the west

And the doctors all tell me I've just gotta have rest

Oh but what good is rest to the body alone

When the mind keeps on pining for that old western home

White fences surround me on every side

A home for the old men is where I reside

I've nothin but memories of days when I roamed

At ease in the saddle that once was my home

[From the LP Essentially Australian May 1967

Barcoo Bill]