Slim Dusty Just Rollin'
With land and sky and lots of room, and a thousand
miles or more,
I rev and point old purple (purple) on the Nullabor.
They say "G'day?" They say "How are you?" "you're
gettin' thin on top,
You've been travelling like a big old ball of rolly
polly grass,"
Like a big old ball of rolly polly grass, I'm rollin'
on.
[Instrumental]
They say G'day old Dusty mate you're gettin' thin on
top,
you've been goin' for so long now will you never ever
stop?
But with mates around the country it's the only way I
see 'em,
And I've said before this travellin' mate is pretty
close to freedom.
With land and sky and lots of room, and a thousand
miles or more,
I rev and point old purple out across the Nullabor.
From the cattle country in the north to Tassie way down
south,
Oh I've seen this old brown country in the big wet and
the drought.
So get off your seat and come outback across the
blacksoil plains,
And you'll find the old Australian ways have very
little changed.
With land and sky and lots of room, and a thousand
miles just gone,
Like a big old ball of roly-poly grass I'm rollin' on
[Instrumental]
In the footsteps of explorers like the famous Burke and
Wills,
Oh I've seen the dreamtime beauty of those Namatjira
hills.
So don't ever try to pin me down to say where I like
best,
I just like Australia mate, North East South and West.
With land and sky and lots of room, and a thousand
miles just gone,
Like a big old ball of roly-poly grass I'm rollin' on
With land and sky and lots of room, and a thousand
miles just gone,
Like a big old ball of roly-poly grass I'm rollin' on.
