Tonalité : Eb major
Verse 1
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I was short of a dollar so
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I called on a bloke
Who's pay wasn't good,
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his gear was a joke
You can't pick and choose when
you're down on your luck
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And your only profession
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is err drivin' a truck
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So we talked for a spell and he gave
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me a job
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This cunning ole guy known
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as Bent—Axle Bob
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The rig which he owned was
an F model Mack
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And the run that I drew was
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the Territory track
Bob's brakes was the kind which
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no other would cart
The places he sent me would just
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break your heart
From dead—ends in Balmain to drill
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rigs out west
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With the sands of a desert,
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put your gears to the test
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But I battled along an' I shif
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ted some weight
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Old Bent—Axle whinged every time
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I ran late
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Small wonder if you saw
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the smoke from the pump
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An d saw half the metal that I
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found in the sump
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(Oh yeah, that's right.)
The trailers were buckled,
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the tyres were worn
The tarps which he owned were
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tattered and torn
The dogs and the chains
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were all rusty and joined
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Oh was easy to see how
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his nickname was coined
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Every axle was bent
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and the dolly was cracked
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The kingpins was strained from
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the loads they had hacked
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I did what I could mate, yes I really tried
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Old Bent Axle whinged 'til
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the day that he died
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(He did yeah)
I'm sittin' here at home an'
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I'm out of a job
No longer employed by
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old Bent Axle Bob
I note from the lawyer,
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I read what's inside
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Seems I have a road train now
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that old Bent Axle died
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Yes I'm heir to the fortune
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of Bent Axle Bob
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"I needed a good driver
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an' you need a job
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You can drive this old rig to
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the scrap dealers dump
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Complete with bent axles
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and that smokey fuel pump."
Complete with bent axles
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and smokey fuel pump
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You can drive this old wreck to
the scrap dealers dump
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(And leave it there.)
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