Mad Jack's Cockatoo (1997 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty

There's a man that went out in the flood time and drought

By the banks of the outer Barcoo

They called him "Mad Jack" 'cos the swag on his back

Was the perch for an old cockatoo

By towns near and far and shed shanty and bar

Came the arms of Mad Jack and his bird

And this tale I relate it was told by a mate

Is just one of the many I've heard

Now Jack was a bloke who could drink holy smoke

He could swig twenty pots to my ten

And that old cockatoo it could sink quite a few

And it drank with the rest of the men

One day when the heat was a thing hard to beat

Mad Jack and his old cockatoo

Came in from the west to the old "Swagman's Rest"

And they ordered schooners for two

When these had gone down he pulled out half a crown

And they drank 'til their money was spent

Then he pulled out a note from his old tattered old coat

And between them they drank every cent

Then that old cockatoo it swore red black and blue

And it knocked all the mugs off the bar

Then it flew through the air and it pulled at the hair

Of a chap who was drinking "Three Star"

And it jerked out the pegs from the barrels and kegs

Knocked the bottles all down from the shelf

With a sound like a cheer it dived into the beer

And it finished up drowning itself

When poor Jack awoke not a word then was spoke

But he cried like a lost husband's wife

And each falling tear made a flood with the beer

And the men had to swim for their life

Now poor Jack was drowned and when finally found

He was lying there stiffened and blue

And it's told far and wide that stretched out by his side

Was his track mate the old cockatoo

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