[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:11.59]My young wife started something [00:14.48]When our partnership was new [00:17.86]She wrote dear slim from your loving wife [00:20.68]June thirteenth nineteen fifty two [00:25.43]The poetical works of lawson [00:28.35]Just a plain red bound book [00:31.34]But since fifty two I've worked right through [00:34.60]My bible of the bush [00:39.18]It's battered now and faded [00:41.89]And it's travelled o'er the years [00:45.13]An I patched it up so many times [00:48.46]An mended the pages with care [00:52.79]Oh there's pencil marks on the pages [00:55.78]Abbreviations where a verse is long [00:58.63]But the ole red book my bible of the bush [01:02.04]Always has just one more song [01:20.48]Whenever I'm down an angry an the world is closing in [01:25.93]Hey I grab my guitar and the old red book [01:29.17]An I find another song to sing [01:33.36]Once again on the track with Andy [01:36.39]Gone with cattle down the castlereagh [01:39.41]Well I'm lecturing old sweeney on that pub verandah again [01:46.85]Oh there's truth there's hurt there's pity [01:50.01]For the battler the lonely the old [01:53.08]There is laughter humour and kindness [01:55.90]In the stories of life lawson told [02:00.59]I hope that you take my meaning [02:03.32]I'm not being irreverent an smart [02:06.34]But when I call this book my bible of the bush [02:09.48]I speak from the depths of my heart [02:14.06]It's battered now and faded [02:16.78]From it's travelled o'er the years [02:20.05]An I patched it so many times [02:23.15]An mended the pages with care [02:27.51]I suppose I should get a new [02:30.39]But I feel that it would be wrong [02:33.17]For this ole red book my bible of the bush [02:36.33]Been my track mate too darn long [02:39.11]Hey this ole red book my bible of the bush [02:42.19]Been my track mate too darn long yeah