Slim Dusty - Cattle Camp Reverie lyrics

There's a rustle through the tree tops as the night wind softly sighs The cattle rest and the bushland is so still From the distance comes the jingle of the horses hobble chains As they graze the gra** round about at will Then I gaze into the embers of my dying campfires glow And the pictures that I see there make me frown For they come along and taunt me what I might have been and done When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down I was once a horseman, a rider of renown Who loved it all the glamour and the glare The handshakes and the backslaps And the false friends that you meet But when the heart is young then everything seems fair A home of friendly neighbours with kiddies running round I threw away to wear a tinsel crown And they always come and taunt me as I sit alone at night When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down For as you grow older and must give the game away You're just a name that blazed awhile ago And the friends you've made have left you for another name that's new Then you take to droving cattle it's the only job you know Then by some lonely fireside you'll be dreaming all alone Whilst the boys are having fun they're back in town I know because I'm here tonight with a lifetime to regret When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down There's a rustle through the tree tops as the night wind softly sighs The old campfire has burned into the ground And my dreams have slowly drifted like the smoke into the trees When the cattle are all bedded and the horses hobbled down