Song Lyrics Unknown - Shearing In The Bar    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> Shearing In The Bar Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Unknown Music Title/Track: Shearing In The Bar Theme ID: 5427 Album: N/A SHEARING IN THE BAR (Duke Tritton) My shearing days are over, though I never was a gun I could always count my twenty at the end of every run I used the old Trade Union shears, and the blades were always full As I drove 'em to the knockers, and I clipped away the wool I shore at Goorianawa and didn't get the sack From Breeza out to Compadore, I always could go back And though I am a truthful man, I find when in a bar My tallies seem to double, but I never call for tar Shearing on the western plains where the fleece is full of sand And the clover burr and corkscrew grass, is the place to try your hand For the sheep are tall and wiry where they feed on the Mitchell grass And every second one of them is close to the cobbler class And a pen chock full of cobblers is a shearers dream of hell So loud and lurid are their words when they catch one on the bell But when we're pouring down the grog, you'll have no call for tar For a shearer never cuts 'em, when shearing in a bar At Louth I caught the bell sheep, a wrinkled, tough wooled brute Who never stopped his kicking till I tossed him down the chute My wrist was aching badly, but I fought him all the way Couldn't afford to miss a blow, I must earn my pound a day So when I'd take a strip of skin, I'd hide it with my knee Turn the sheep around a bit where the right bower couldn't see Then try and catch the rousie's eye and softly whisper "tar" But it never seems to happen when I'm shearing in the bar I shore away the belly wool and trimmed the crutch and hocks Opened up along the neck while the rousie swept the locks Then smartly swung the sheep around and dumped him on his rear Two blows to clip away the wig - I also took an ear Then down around the shoulder and the blades were open wide As I drove 'em on the long blow and down the whipping side And when the fleece fell on the board, he was nearly black with tar But this is never mentioned when I'm shearing in a bar Now when the seasons ended and my grandsons all come back In their buggies and their sulkies -I was always on the track They come and take me into town to fill me up with beer And I sit on a corner stool and listen to them shear There's not a bit of difference - it must make the angels weep To hear a mob of shearers in a barroom shearing sheep For the sheep go rattling down the race with never a call for tar For a shearer never cuts 'em when he's shearing in a bar Then memories come a crowding and they wipe away the years And my hand begins to tighten and I seem to feel the shears I want to tell them of the sheds, the sheds where I have shorn Full fifty years and sometimes more, before these boys were born I want to speak of yarragin, Dunlop or Wingadee But the beer has started working and I'm wobbling at the knees So I'd better not start shearing, I'd be bound to call for tar Then be treated as a blackleg when I'm shearing in a bar @Australia @work @sheep @brag sung by Martyn Windom-Read filename[ SHEARBAR play.exe SHEARBAR SF ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Shingling The Rum Sellers Roof, Ship That Never Returned, Ships Carpenter, Shoals Of Herring, Short Jacket Cabin Boy, Shorty George, Shule Aroon, Si Me Quieres Escribir, Sickness And Diseases, Sidewalks Of New York, Silent Night, Silk Merchants Daughter, Silkie, Silver Bells, Silver Dagger, Silver Dollar, Silver In The Stubble, Silver Threads Among The Gold, Simple Gifts, Simss Flotilla, Since First I Saw Your Face, Singapore Anthem Text, Singapore Native Anthem Text, Singers Request, Single Girl, Singular Dream, Sinner Man, Sioux Indians, Sir Hugh Or The Jews Daughter, Sir James The Rose, Sir Patrick Spens, Sir Simon De Montford, Sir William Gower, Sittin On Top Of The World, Skibbereen, Skip To My Lou, Skiving, Skye Boat Song, Slieve Gallen Braes, Slovakia Anthem Text, Slovakia Native Anthem Text, Slovenia Anthem Text, Slovenia Native Anthem Text, Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette, Smut, Snatch And Grab It, Snoopys Christmas, So Early In The Spring, Sodden Clods Are Coming To Town A New Years Carol, Solar Carol, Other Unknown song Lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics A Fenian Song Lyrics A Fool Such As I Lyrics A Friend Like You Lyrics A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics A Horse Named Bill Lyrics A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics A Living Wage Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Unknown Prophets Lyrics Unleashed Lyrics Unleashed Power Lyrics Unlimited Nation Lyrics Unlimited Sound Lyrics UNLOCO Lyrics Unlord Lyrics UNLV Lyrics Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics Uno Svenningsson Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy