Slim Dusty - Sassafras Gap lyrics

rate me

My daddy was a timber cutter,

That's how how he earned his bread and butter

Home was nothin' but a weatherbeaten timber shack

The tin roof leaked a little and the chimney leaned a lot

But it kept out the snow and the rain up at Sassafras Gap

My mother was a great big lady

With a heart just as big as a tree

Daddy Jack cut down the forest by the timber track

But she taught us all our lessons

Taught us how to read and write

And she'd tuck us into bed every night up at Sassafras Gap

Saturday night was the best time of all

We'd all get together and have us a ball

We'd pick a little music

Drink a lot of homemade wine

Us kids could hardly wait for summer,

So we could go swimmin' in the river,

Divin' in the water off the bridge up by Thompson's shack

Well my Mum used to say I was lazy

Opposite of just plain crazy

And it was good to be alive and livin' up at Sassafras Gap

Saturday night was the best time of all,

We'd all get together and have us a ball

We'd pick a little music

Drink a lot of homemade wine

Us kids could hardly wait for summer,

So we could go swimmin' in the river,

Divin' in the water off the bridge up by Thompson's shack

Well now, my Mum used to say I was lazy

Opposite of just plain crazy

And it was good to be alive and livin' up at Sassafras Gap

And it was good to be alive and livin' up at Sassafras Gap.

[From his album: "West of Winton"

Contributed: Marten Busstra 2009]