Slim Dusty - Old Time Country Halls Lyrics
As I pick up my guitar to sing another songI hear the walls of this old hall - you've done this thing too longYou know you've been around for years, I guess you've shown us allI talk like this when I reminisce with an old time country hallI joined a tent show as a kid with a dream and an old guitarThe Silvers All-Star Cavalcade and Dandy was the starHe taught me lots about the game, today I understandHe was a great magician, Dandy was a fine old manI'm a howlin' cattle-hand croonerI'm an old time dinosaurHey, let me sing where the rafters ringIn an old time country hall, that's rightI've been on the road for thirty years but Dandy could double thatAnd you'll find his faded poster still in some hall way out backI like to go back stage and dream sometimes and just recallThe shows I've had, the good and bad, shared with these country hallsTake the old Town Hall Kalgoorlie with it's old time charm and graceAnd your mounting million complexes never will replaceAll glass and steal and concrete, some large and some too smallSo let me sing where the rafters ring in an old time country hall, heyWe showed last night in the school of arts and the town was real run-downYou'll find so many towns like that today as you move aroundYeah, the wind of change is blowin' up such an economic lowThe old time shows we used to know will soon be off the roadI'm a howlin' cattle-hand croonerI'm an old time dinosaurHey, let me sing where the rafters ringIn an old time country hallIn an old time country hallIn an old time country hall
