[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:07.26]No doubt you've heard of droning trips across the murrain [00:13.16]And how they brought the [00:14.47]Bullocks down in the good old days gone bye [00:18.79]But the greatest droning episode that any man has made [00:24.48]Was 30 000 crocodiles from the gulf to Adelaide [00:30.18]Oh I never saw the likes of them that mob of crocodiles [00:36.43]Thirty footers every one strung out for thirty miles [00:41.91]Three days it took to start'em off three days to straighten em up [00:47.59]Three days we travelled southward three days to block'em up [00:58.13]They were long and mean and [00:59.71]Cranky they had teeth like cross cut saws [01:03.79]When passing though some timber just to exercise their jaws [01:09.49]They churned out hardwood posts one foot through by seven tall [01:15.31]All stacked up by the stock route barked an' sapped an' all [01:21.07]Oh they had a normal appetite as lizards really should [01:27.10]And everything in hair or hide was considered very good [01:32.83]The first day out from normanton we missed the jackaroo [01:38.40]But then blow me down the [01:39.93]Horses went an' the old blue healer too [01:48.80]And the last we saw of gonna bob horse tailor of repute [01:54.57]He was heading toward the rabbit proof with a big croc in pursuit [02:00.12]When drifting down the Flanders they cracked on a bit of pace [02:06.02]Oh they took a mob of bullocks and never left a trace [02:11.68]Oh I've been up and down these [02:13.03]Stock routes now for 20 years or more [02:17.32]But I've never seen a travelling mob the likes of this before [02:23.02]By salt bush plains and gidgee rise downlow the old Georgina [02:28.94]The snapped an' snarled and [02:30.26]Pawed all day they were slowly getting meaner [02:39.27]They didn't like the spinifex a tickling their ol hides [02:44.88]And with water getting far apart the tears came to their eyes [02:50.55]Now you've heard of crocodile [02:52.45]Tears but you wouldn't know the meaning [02:56.20]Oh with 30 000 shedding tears oh seeing is believing [03:02.10]There was water in the gullies there was water in the creeks [03:07.78]And the old Georgina river running belly deep for weeks [03:13.72]For it was our great salvation for upon that flood of tears [03:19.25]We sailed'em down past lake Eyre on the biggest flood for years [03:29.99]A short step then to Adelaide and delivery right on time [03:35.74]The agent came to meet us and [03:37.75]Here's the ending of this rhyme [03:41.20]For he said you'll have to turn em [03:43.01]Around and take them back again [03:46.97]For the fashion now in ladies shoes is [03:50.71]Imitation crocodile with the courser grain