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Haystack Mountain Hermits
Haystack Mountain Hermits
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Kerrie Gambley
Kerrie Gambley
Composer

歌詞

Ebenezer stood at 16 hands
One for my every year
And we'd been together it seemed like forever
And now we've ended up here
How the hell have we ended up here?
I was no coldfooter, I enlisted in October
Up in Brisbane town in 1914
My papers mark me "dark and sallow"
But they might as well say callow
For I thought war adventure to be seen
And God help me for my Country I was keen
Oh-oh Ebenezer
How can I just leave ya
To be sold to the army, or left for the mines
Forgive me for what I must do
Forgive me for what I must do
Out of Cairo we had training
There was marching; there was praying
When demount orders came in secrecy
We were game as young Ned Kelly
And in May we all stood ready
Setting sail to reinforce the infantry
Our horses stayed behind Gallipoli
But we went to other battles
With Waler courage, heart and mettle
They say the finest cavalry the world had known
Back when The Road to Gundagai could make a grown man cry
At times I felt it right down to the bone
When the fallen stayed behind alone
Oh-oh Ebenezer
How can I just leave ya
To be sold to the army, or left for the mines
Forgive me for what I must do
Please forgive me for what I must do
Well, I heard it first from Murphy, thought it had to be a furphy
I thought the shell-shock finally took his mind
Oh my flamin' oath the Squadron was lit up like a firebomb
With official word: "The horses stay behind"
We copped it bad: "The horses stay behind"
One last ride
One last ride
One last ride
One last ride
And I'll be damned if I'm inclined
To leave my horse behind
Ebenezer we will go for one last ride
But I would give more than my feather
If we could go back home together
And not come a gutser out on one last ride
Ebenezer we will go for one last ride
Oh-oh Ebenezer
I just cannot leave ya
To be sold to the army, or left for the mines
Forgive me for what I must do
Please forgive me for what I must do
God forgive me for what I must do
Written by: Kerrie Gambley
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