The Drover's Ballad (From "Australia"/Soundtrack Version)-Elton John

[00:00.000] 作词 : Baz Luhrmann/Anton Monsted/Schuyler Weiss [00:00.029] 作曲 : Elton John/Baz Luhrmann/Anton Monsted/Schuyler Weiss [00:00.58]The Drover’s Ballad - Elton John [00:22.86]From the sunburnt plains of far off North Australia [00:26.98] [00:28.49]Came a fella born to ride the wide brown land [00:32.49] [00:34.21]Oh he grew up running wild [00:36.28] [00:36.98]But soon by all was styled [00:39.77]As the country's greatest-ever droving man [00:43.50] [00:45.49]Oh his legend rode the winds from Broome to Darwin [00:49.81] [00:50.99]They loved and loathed him right from end to end [00:55.24] [00:56.62]For when the drover gave his heart [00:59.46]To a girl whose skin was dark [01:01.78] [01:02.43]From that day on he was no white man's friend [01:07.07] [01:08.06]So goes The Drover's story, [01:10.38]you'll hear it near and far [01:13.50]And in the end it's all he'll ever own [01:17.62] [01:18.83]It says the outcast is a free man [01:22.13]If he sleeps under the stars [01:24.84]Makes the blanket of the southern skies his home [01:30.54] [01:33.61]Then they called him up to fight for Mother England [01:37.96] [01:39.11]In a far off war that spilled his brother's blood [01:43.41] [01:45.15]Inside the jaws of Hell [01:47.54]Where both his brothers fell [01:50.15]He just watched his faith in man die in the mud [01:54.49] [01:55.99]There was no hero's welcome for The Drover [02:00.56] [02:01.70]Just a country that had turned its back on him [02:05.78] [02:07.31]When he came home from the war [02:10.12]His sick wife, they would not cure [02:12.81]They let her die, for the colour of her skin [02:16.81] [02:18.69]So goes The Drover's story, [02:21.31]you'll hear it near and far [02:24.09]And in the end it's all he'll ever own [02:28.11] [02:29.16]It says the outcast is a free man [02:32.69]If he sleeps under the stars [02:34.90] [02:35.46]Makes the blanket of the southern skies his home [02:39.91] [03:12.87]The Drover is a man of constant shadows [03:17.07] [03:18.20]Haunted by his pain, his past and name [03:22.58] [03:23.54]For every mile he rides [03:25.79] [03:26.51]What he cannot hide, [03:28.55] [03:29.29]Is the longing in his heart to love again [03:33.12] [03:34.85]So goes The Drover's story, [03:37.62]you'll hear it near and far [03:39.74] [03:40.32]And in the end it's all he'll ever own [03:44.32] [03:45.41]It says the outcast is a free man [03:48.97]If he sleeps under the stars [03:51.12] [03:51.87]Makes the blanket of the southern skies his home [03:56.46] [04:00.81]blanket of the southern skies his home [04:05.04] [04:08.89]his home