Big Sundown

[Verse 1] Well when I was a child My mother told me son Don't succumb to fan or fair Or wait for your day to come [Verse 2] Dad drank like a fish Watching Geronimo On the coach with his belly out In a cloud of Richmond smoke [Bridge] We snuck around the back By the light of the TV glow [Verse 3] Tell me where are we going and when can we leave Take your brothers car I'll drive for free The watching eyes are coming round On the day of the big Day of the Big Sundown [Verse 4] I worked all summer saving Up to fly the nest I was cutting grass in the cul-de-sac With a two stroke Cub Cadet [Verse 5] I was drеaming of the bush man And the Northern Dеsert sky And Martin Cash and Old Bold Jack And The Great Australian Bite [Bridge] Well I pushed that mower round Every god-damn house in town [Verse 6] Tell me where are we going and what’s the plan We could cut cloth in the promised land I could see us now man riding out On the way to the big Way to the Big Sundown [Verse 7] Cause the road will open up And at least that’s what I hope What I hope What I hope it does [Verse 8] We got to Darwin Harbour Was the fall of '83 The foreman had us pouring asphalt By a sewage treatment facility Said, "You couldn't find the end of a shovel Cause you can’t teach stupid how" He said, "Go ahead fellas, it's now or never 'Cause these holes won’t fill themselves" [Bridge] I said "Thank you very much But I think we best be off" [Verse 9] Tell me where are we going and when can we stop Do ya reckon Jimmy Cook man ever felt lost? I wonder if he turned around On the way to the big Way to the Big Sundown [Verse 10] Cause the road will open up And at least that’s what I hope What I hope What I hope it does