Slim Dusty - The Melbourne Cup lyrics

There's a bustle in the city, there's excitement in the scrubs There's a drone of rowdy voices in every Aussie pub For a year we've all been waiting and we've put our money up And we're out to back the winner of the famous Melbourne Cup There's a pause in all production for our minds are on the race And it's time that all our worries are forgotton for a space And the women cease their talking, turn the radio well up And with whippin' spur their waiting for the starting of the Cup And the T. A. B. 's are crowded and the punters rush and push They've held a sweep in every pub in city and in bush Then a mighty cheering follows as the barrier goes up And there's a thousand jockey's spurring every race their in the cup The first Tuesday of November, every year it is the same Every Aussie heart is beating with excitement of the game For they bet on dream or fancy or the forms they've followed up From a dollar up to thousands on the famous Melbourne Cup There are millions who have never even sat upon a horse Whether it be yarding cattle or racing on the course And it's doubtful if they'd even know the way to saddle up But they take a lot of beating when they're racing in the cup Now the famous race is over for another hopeful year There's a lot of smiling faces and there's others shedding tears There's a battler made a fortune, and a wealthy man hard-up But win or lose they're waiting now for next year's Melbourne Cup Oh that's right There's a bustle in the city, there's excitement in the scrubs There's a drone of rowdy voices in every Aussie pub And the battler makes a fortune, and a wealthy man hard-up But win or lose they're waiti