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Harry The Breaker (1996 Digital Remaster)
Slim Dusty
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Harry the Breaker, the man was really game
Around about the nineties in the west of New South Wales
And under starry Queensland skies the drovers told their tales
About a daring horseman known to all, Morant by name
There never was a lively colt the Breaker couldn't tame
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An admiral in Devon once had taught the boy to dare
But in the bush your pedigree won't get you anywhere
The drovers always found Morant a man of right good cheer
And when the Breaker cashed his cheque he really liked his beer
Harry the Breaker, the man who knew no fear
The Melbourne Hunt Club knew him well, their socials he'd attend
And many Sydney gentlemen were glad to call him friend
The ballads that the drover wrote beneath the starlit skies
He would recite at parties grand before admiring eyes
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In Adelaide he found he'd take the droving routes no more
For as the mounted trooper Harry went to fight the Boer
And when on leave in England he soon found his promised bride
And chased the fox in Devon with his sweetheart by his side
Harry the Breaker, the man who always tried
And now this gallant horseman, still the man who had no fears
Accepted a commission in the Bush Veldt Carbineers
The war was nearly over but the cleaning up was tough
The rules were rather hazy and the going very rough
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The Boers had shot his wounded friend, the brother of his girl
Harry shot his prisoners, his head was in a whirl
He stood court-martial like a man, a man who has his pride
And talking to the firing squad was how the Breaker died
Harry the Breaker, may he in peace abide
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