[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:06.39]Now I've listened to tales [00:08.00]That the oldsters told from Bourke to Camooweal [00:11.71]And on dusty tracks in the southern states from Orbost to Warracknabeal [00:16.94]Some were grave and some were gay and some with humour too [00:21.96]And each of the tellers always swore that the tale [00:24.86]That he told was true [00:28.33]Old Paddy the dancer a swagman of note [00:30.75]Who followed the 'Bidgee run [00:33.36]Found himself on the tucker track [00:35.76]And most of his food was done [00:38.05]So he pondered a while and thought [00:39.98]At last as far as he could see [00:43.13]That he'd have to catch himself a cod [00:45.83]To cook on the coals for tea [00:49.27]So he rigged a line from binder [00:51.15]Twine that he'd scrounged from a farmers hay [00:54.27]And then fashioned a hook from [00:55.52]A rusty nail that got stuck in his foot that day [00:59.13]Well he looked with pride on [01:00.52]His fishing gear and to try he could hardly wait [01:04.14]Then he saw at last as anglers [01:06.18]Do you must cover your hook with bait [01:10.31]He remembered a tale that someone [01:12.18]Told in the dim and distant past [01:15.31]That frogs were the things that [01:16.71]The anglers used for the fish to break their fasts [01:20.21]But frogs were as scarce as [01:21.87]Teeth on hens or that's what he said to me [01:25.15]But he searched around till he found a frog [01:27.74]At the foot of a light wood tree [01:31.40]Well he stalked that frog on [01:32.99]Hands and knees like big game hunters do [01:36.38]But a black snake coming the other way [01:38.49]Had the same idea in view [01:41.32]But both of them grabbed together [01:43.79]But the snake was a fraction fast [01:46.40]It swallowed the frog but [01:47.89]Found itself held in the swagman's grasp [01:51.16]Well he fished from his [01:52.20]Pocket a flask he had of very potent grog [01:56.32]And said with a sigh [01:57.54]It must be done I want that flamin' frog [02:02.34]Well he squeezed that [02:03.39]Wriggling reptile's neck 'til [02:05.04]It's jaws were opened wide [02:07.34]Then with tears in his eyes [02:08.78]He poured the lot into the snakes' insides [02:12.23]Well it gave a gurgle and [02:13.79]Then a gulp and then quite a twist or two [02:17.43]And there was that old frog [02:18.49]In the light of day almost as good as new [02:23.32]Well he grabbed that frog and [02:24.97]An hurried away to bait up his rusty hook [02:28.62]And then lay back on the grassy [02:30.60]Bank by the side of that peaceful brook [02:33.54]Then he felt a tap on his shoulder [02:35.44]Blade and turned with eyes agog [02:38.51]And there was that snake all bleary eyed [02:41.02]In it's mouth was another frog [02:45.58]Well that was the tale that was told [02:48.13]To me at a camp on the reedy flat [02:51.37]Maybe it's true or maybe not [02:53.86]You'd best be the judge of that [02:56.18]But what I can hardly believe is [02:58.63]Is the way that he liked the grog [03:01.14]He would give it away to a [03:02.76]Worthless snake for the sake of a useless frog