Back On The Grader

Have you seen the old stockman at the functions and balls He drinks while they serve him and he sleeps where he falls He'll be crook sunday but he'll turn up monday Through he wonders if one day he'll bother at all Cause they've turned out the horses the whole bloody plant And he'd ride a bike if he could but he can't And if you live to chase cattle you'll die where you are And he's back he's back on the grader again He got married young on a wing and a prayer And it promised the world but they didn't go there 'Cos the wet season ends and away like the damp He shoulders his saddle and he's back in the camp Cause they've turned out the horses the whole bloody plant And he'd ride a bike if he could but he can't And if you live to chase cattle you'll die where you are And he's back he's back on the grader again He can't get the books cause he can't read or write And he's to old for drivin' a road train at night The windmills to high and the fencings to hard He's to proud for the garden to slow for the yard Cause they've turned out the horses the whole bloody plant And he'd ride a bike if he could but he can't And if you live to chase cattle you'll die where you are And he's back he's back on the grader again Chorus Cause they've turned out the horses the whole bloody plant And he'd ride a bike if he could but he can't And if you live to chase cattle you'll die where you are And he's back he's back on the grader again