End Of The Canning Stock Route chords by Slim Dusty

Chords with lyrics

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The camp gear’s in the store room, all the packs are in the shed
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With the dust of seven summers on their hide
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Saddle straps are hard and brittle stirrup irons are rusty red
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For the canning stock route finished when wally dowling died
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No more cattle travel southward thro the spinifex and sand
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All the wells are falling in along the track
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Now the cannings but a 🏷Legend just a lonely desert land
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And it’s doubtful if the munjongs want it back

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Eight hundred miles of sandhills now and then a sandstone ridge
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With a salt lake here and there with samphire flat
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An oasis in the desert you can find at durba springs
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Bubbling, running water it’s a fact
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But unless you own a camel you could never travel there
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And a horse would fail now the wells have fallen in
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For the sandhills on the canning, reach a hundred feet or more
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And it’s certain that no car could take you in

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The famous never never and the place they call outback
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Two elusive lands that few men ever found
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Are located on the canning down that lonely desert track
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Where to be this very moment would be worth a thousand pound
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To be with wally dowling, whipping water from the well
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While the stockmen hold the mob back from the trough
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Stop the thirsty bullocks trampling in their great desire to drink
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Just to do one trip would suit me well enough

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But my wish is just a daydream which can never be fulfilled
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For when wally died the stock route had its day
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Now the billiluna cattle are travelling down to broome
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In a roaring diesel road train to the meat works by the bay
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And the tick line stops the others every station in the north
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No one may use the canning if he would
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So they truck their beef to wyndham and sell for what its worth
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And i doubt they’d use the canning if they could

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It’s really had its day now and won’t be used again
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No more drovers horse bells ringin will be heard
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For a cattle loaded road train smothered in its diesel fumes
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Now struggles up the rise in lower third
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When i travel up the canning i am sure to be alone
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With my camels and some thoughts of yesterday
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They will take me slowly northward till at last the trip is done
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And find contentment when i’ve stowed the packs away
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The camp gear’s in the store room, all the packs are in the shed
C majorC                 G+G
With the dust of seven summers on their hide
G+G
Saddle straps are hard and brittle stirrup irons are rusty red
    A7A7               C majorC    D MajorD    G+G