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Slim Dusty
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The Clearing Sale
Have you ever stopped to linger when a clearing sale is done? And the warmth of that old homestead seems to vanish with the sun All the bidders have their bargains and the auctioneer is paid And the twilight wraps the old home in its dreams of yesterday
The gate is swinging open as I take the lonely path No welcome lights the window no cheery blaze to warm the hearth And I feel like an intruder as though I walk on sacred ground Only silence comes to greet me for the shadows make no sound
There's a rocker in a corner but it won't rock no more There's a lucky horseshoe hanging still on a nail above the door I step upon a child's toy hell, a broken tip truck red and blue Oh I seem to hear a child laugh maybe you can hear it too?
I see my own reflection in a mirror on the wall 更多更詳盡歌詞 在 ※ Mojim.com 魔鏡歌詞網 And a picture of a horse team lies forgotten in the hall Just a few things no one bid for and now they're set aside at last Like the memories of the homestead now they'll slip into the past
I wonder how the old man felt to see his tractor go? And it must have hurt the old wife, though she'd never let it show To see the things she had a lifetime now pass into other hands No a clearing sales' not easy friends when it's time to leave the land
Just a few discarded relics of the days that used to be And I leave them as I found them for what could they mean to me Now the night is on the old house and the starlight softly gleams As I close the gate behind me and leave the homestead with its dreams
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