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Sonia Buckley / Banjo Patterson - The Cattle

from Bare Naked and Natural by Sonia Buckley

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I found this poem in my daughters lunchbox, i grew up in the mountains of Victoria in the High Country now 8 generations of Cattle/Mountain men and women..Ive driven cattle up to buckwong and charlies creek and when i read this poem i knew what it meant and though i could honour Banjos work and put music and melody to it.. I hope i have done it justice

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The drought is done on field and flock the riverbed is dry
And we must shift the starving stock before the cattle die
We muster up with weary hearts at the breaking of the day and turn our heads to foreign parts to take the stock away..And its hunt em up and dog em and its get the whip and flog em for its weary work is droving when they're dying everyday...On stock routes bear and eaten on dusty roads and beaten with half a chance to save their lives we take the stock away..in dull despair the days go by with never hope of change with every stage we feel more nigh the distant mountain range...And some may live to climb the pass and reach the great plateau and revel in the mountain grass by streamlets feed with snow...and mountain wind is blowin and it starts the cattle lowin calling for each other down the dusty long array and thier speaks a grizzled drover well thank go the worst its over and the creatures smell the mountain grass thats twenty miles away, that's twenty miles away...

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from Bare Naked and Natural, track released January 4, 2012

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Here is a collection of handcrafted written songs for you that I think you will love! Feel free to share or gift it to your friends..When you buy a song or even better an album your will be helping me create more music. I believe my aim is true and I will move you with my music!

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