Tonart: E major
Verse 1
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It was somewhere in September
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and the sun was goin' down
When I came in search of copy,
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to a Darling River town
Come- And- Have- A- Drink we'll call it,
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'tis a fitting name I think
And 'twas raining, for a wonder,
up at Come- And- Have- A- Drink
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Verse 2
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Underneath the pub verandah
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I was resting on a bunk
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When a stranger rose before me,
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and he said that he was drunk
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He apologised for speaking,
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there was no offence he swore
But he somehow seemed to fancy
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that he'd seen my face before
He agreed you can't remember all
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the chaps you chance to meet
And he said his name was Sweeney,
people lived in Sussex Street
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Verse 3
He was camping in a stable,
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that he swore that he was right
Only for the blanky horses
D
walkin' over him all night
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He'd apparently been fighting,
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for his face was black and blue
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And it looked as though the horses
had been treading on him too
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Verse 4
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But an honest genial twinkle in the
Seemed to hint of something better,
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A
D
spite of drink and rags and dirt
He was born in Parramatta and
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he said with humour grim
That he'd like to see the city,
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'ere the liquor finished him
But he couldn't raise the money,
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he was damned if he could think
What the Government was doing here,
he offered me a drink
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Verse 5
I declined, 'twas self- denial and
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I lectured him on booze
Using all the hackneyed arguments
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that preachers mostly use
Things I'd heard in temperance lectures,
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I was young and rather green
And I ended by referring to
the man he might have been
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Verse 6
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But he couldn't stay to argue,
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for his beer was nearly gone
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He was glad, he said, to meet me,
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and he'd see me later on
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But he guessed he'd have to go
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and get his bottle filled again
And he gave a lurch and vanished
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in the darkness and the rain
Verse 7
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Now of afternoons in cities,
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when the rain is on the land
Visions come to me of Sweeney,
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with his bottle in his hand.
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