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Back Block’s Shire Lyrics by Kev Carmody

Recollections... Reflections... (A Journey)

2015

[Verse 1]
Time was when on them old freight trains
Us people rode to town on a long steel rail
In the tail-end guarde’s van with the weekly mail
[Chorus]
The country soul was in them back block shires
Things didn’t change much as time it rolls by
[Verse 2]
Ted broke horses with a bull-bronc spur
He kept those bleeders buried deep in fur
He never had a cent but he called no-one sir
[Chorus]
The country soul was in them back block shires
Things didn’t change much as time it rolls by
[Verse 3]
When a person been thinkin’ of the friends he’s had
Some bеin’ good, others been bad
Some will shake you out likе a dirty rag
[Chorus]
The country soul was in them back block shires
Things didn’t change much as time it rolls by
[Verse 4]
Got me swag and a lift to the next new job
Splittin’ hard-wood sleepers from them iron bark logs
Pays real good but you work like a drover’s dog
[Chorus]
The country soul was in them back block shires
Things didn’t change much as time it rolls by
[Verse 5]
Two months time goin’ back to our block
With the money I’ve earned build our family a hut
Have our own place
Get out of this rut
[Chorus]
The country soul was in them back block shires
Things didn’t change much as time it rolls by
[Verse 6]
Raise chooks and pigs, calves and lambs
Plant beans an’ spuds and cure our own hams
Brine our corned meat
Least that’s our plan
[Chorus]
The country soul was in them back block shires
Things didn’t change much as time it rolls by
[Verse 7]
Well I’ve been up and I've been down
Feel so much better when I leave the town
Love those open spaces and the wooded ground
[Chorus]
The country soul was in them back block shires
Things didn’t change much as time it rolls by
[Verse 8]
Time was when like them pressed wool bales
Us people rode to town on a long steel rail
In the tail-end gaurds van with the weekly mail
[Chorus]
The country soul was in them back block shires
Things didn’t change much as time it rolls by
Credits
Kev Carmody

Kev Carmody

About “Back Block’s Shire” by Kev Carmody

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"Back Block’s Shire" appears on "Recollections... Reflections... (A Journey)" in 2015.

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