Johnny Stewart Drover

	  		

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The mob is dipped, the drive is started out 
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They're leaving Rockland's dusty sheds behind them 
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The whips are cracking and the drovers shout 
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Along the Queensland stock-roads you will find them 

Droving ways have been like this for years 
No modern ways have meant their days are over 
The diesel road trains cannot know the steers 
Or walk them down like Johnny Stewart, drover 

 

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On the banks of the Georgina and down the Diamantina 
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To where the grass is greener, down by New South Wales 
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Johnny Stewart's roving with mobs of cattle droving 
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His life story moving down miles of dusty trails 


  
The cook is busy by the campfire light 
Above a fire a billy gently swinging 
The mob is settled quietly for the night 
And Johnny's riding softly around and singing 

Johnny doesn't spend much time in town 
Impatient for the wet to be over 
Most of the year he's walking cattle down 
The stock roads are home for Johnny Stewart, drover 

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Dawn will surely find another day 
Sun still chasing moon, never caught her 
The morning light will find them on their way 
Another push to reach the next good water 

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They're counted in now, Johnny's work is done 
And fifteen hundred head are handed over 
It's into town now for a little fun 
And a beer or two for Johnny Stewart, drover 

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