Old Time Country Songs - Slim Dusty

When I was just a youngster, way back in the hills

We had an old battery wireless, it gave us lots of thrills

We knew all the country programs, what time when they came on

Mostly on the weekend, we’d listen to those songs

Jimmie Rodgers and old Tex Ritter, many more soon on the scene

Carson Robison, Gene Autry, they galloped across the screen

Then a young man from New Zealand, with a style all of his own

He played what they called a Spanish guitar and he yodelled up a storm

My dad he played the fiddle, and he laid it down his arm

He’d sit on the old front verandah in the evenings in the calm

I got myself an old guitar, and I soon strummed along

But I’ve always had a weakness for those old time country songs

They are my fondest memories, that I never will forget

And when things get tough in this business, in memory I go back yet

Oh, there’s nothing like this music, it just hangs on and on

Yes, I’ve always had a weakness for those old time country songs

As a boy I dreamed of travel, to cover this big old land

So I headed north in the '50s, in a homemade caravan

Early years had corrugations, so we had no time to stall

But I still say to this very day, they were the best damn times of all