Words: Unknown Tune: Jack O'Hagan (The Road to Gundagai)
There's a clapped-out old Ford Made of rubber, tin and board Along the road to Gundagai. The radiator's hissing And half the engine's missing The oil-tank's running dry There's water in the petrol There's sand in the gears She hasn't seen a garage for more than thirty years But you should hear her roar When the pedal hits the floor Along the road to Gundagai.
One of many parodies of the famous Australian song. I learnt this one in the 1980s in the Brisbane sessions.
Oh, we started down from Roto when the sheds had all cut out. We’d whips and whips of Rhino as we meant to push about, So we humped our blues serenely and made for Sydney town, With a three-spot cheque between us, as wanted knocking down.
CHORUS: But we camped at Lazy Harry’s, on the road to Gundagai The road to Gundagai! Not five miles from Gundagai! Yes, we camped at Lazy Harry’s, on the road to Gundagai.
Well, we struck the Murrumbidgee near the Yanko in a week, And passed through old Narrandera and crossed the Burnet Creek. And we never stopped at Wagga, for we’d Sydney in our eye. But we camped at Lazy Harry’s, on the road to Gundagai.
Oh, I’ve seen a lot of girls, my boys, and drunk a lot of beer, And I’ve met with some of both, chaps, as has left me mighty queer; But for beer to knock you sideways, and for girls to make you sigh, You must camp at Lazy Harry’s, on the road to Gundagai.
Well, we chucked our blooming swags off, and we walked into the bar, And we called for rum-an’-raspb’ry and a shilling each cigar. But the girl that served the pizen, she winked at Bill and I— And we camped at Lazy Harry’s, not five miles from Gundagai.
In a week the spree was over and the cheque was all knocked down, So we shouldered our “Matildas,” and we turned our backs on town, And the girls they stood a nobbler as we sadly said “Goodbye,” And we tramped from Lazy Harry’s, not five miles from Gundagai;
Another classic from Banjo Paterson's Old Bush Songs, recorded by AL Lloyd.
