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Clancy of the Overflow
Poem by A B "Banjo" Paterson
Music: Wallis and Matilda
Pioneers (1981)
https://youtu.be/qghnx1o5gJ4
[Verse 1]GCG
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
CGD
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,
CG
He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
DDG
Just ‘on spec’, addressed as follows, ‘Clancy, of The Overflow’.
[Verse 2]GCG
And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,
CGD
(And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar)
CG
’Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:
DCG
‘Clancy’s gone to Queensland droving, and we don’t know where he are.’
[Verse 3]GCG
In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy
CGD
Gone a-droving ‘down the Cooper’ where the Western drovers go;
CG
As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing,
DCG
For the drover’s life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.
[Verse 4]GCG
And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him
CGD
In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,
CG
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
DCG
And at night the wond’rous glory of the everlasting stars.
[Verse 5]GCG
I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy
CGD
Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,
CG
And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city
DCG
Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all
[Verse 6]GCG
And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle
CGD
Of the tramways and the ‘buses making hurry down the street,
CG
And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting,
DCG
Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.
[Verse 7]GCG
And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me
CGD
As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,
CG
With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy,
DCG
For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.
[Verse 8]GCG
And I somehow rather fancy that I’d like to change with Clancy,
CGD
Like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go,
CG
While he faced the round eternal of the cash-book and the journal...
DCG
But I doubt he’d suit the office, Clancy, of ‘The Overflow’
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