Slim Dusty - A Word To Texas Jack Chords

[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Texas Jack, you are amusing [F] great Lord Harry, how I laugh
When I seen your rig and saddle, with it [Bb] bull walks for an hour
[Eb] Holy smoke from such a saddle, how [Bb] the dicken can you fall
Why I've seen a girl ride bareback with [F] no bridle on [Bb] at all
How I'd like to see a bushman use [F] your fixin's Texas Jack
On the remnant of a saddle he [Bb] could ride to hell and back
Why [Eb] I've heard a mother [Bb] cheering when her kid went tossing by
[Eb] Riding [Bb] bareback on a bucker that [F] had murder [Bb] in his eye
_ _ You _ may talk about your riding [F] in the city bold and free
Talk of riding in the city [Bb] Texas Jack, but where'd you be
[Eb] When the stock horse snorts and bunches [Bb] all his quarters in a hump
And the saddle climbed to sapling [F] and the horse you [Bb] split a stump
_ No before you teach the native [F] you must ride without a fall
Up a gum or down a gully, [Bb] nigh as steep as any wall
[Eb] You must swim the roar and darling [Bb] when the flood is at its height
There and down the stock and stations [F] to the great [Bb] Australian Bight
_ _ _ You can't count the bulls and bison's [F] that you copped with your lasso
But a stout old mile full of [Bb] perhaps can learn you something new
[Eb] You had better make your will and [Bb] leave your papers neat and trim
Before you make arrangements [F] for the [Bb] lassoing of him _
And you say you're deaf on engines, [F] we've got something in your line
If you think you're fighting's equal [Bb] to the likes of Tommy Ryan
[Eb] Take your carcass up to [Bb] Queensland where the alligators chew
And the carpet snake is handy [F] with his tail for [Bb] a lasso
_ _ _ Ride across the hazy [F] regions where the lonely emus wail
And you'll find the doc will track you [Bb] while you're looking for his trail
[Eb] He can track you without stopping [Bb] for a thousand miles or more
Come again and he will show you [F] where you spat the [Bb] year before
_ But you'd best be mighty careful [F] you'll be sorry you came here
When you're skewered to the fragments [Bb] of your saddle with a spear
[Eb] When the boomerang is sailing [Bb] in the air then heaven help you
[Eb] It will cut your [Bb] head off going [F] and come back [Bb] again to scalp you
_ Hex's Jack you are amusing [F] great Lord Harry how I laugh
When I seen your rig and saddle with [Bb] it bull walks for an hour
[Eb] Holy smoke from such a [Bb] saddle how the dickens can you call
Why I've seen a girl ride bareback [F] with no bridle on [Bb] at all
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