Key: D
Introduction:
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Davey has a photo
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From the day they met Slim Dusty
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It hangs beneath the longhorns in a simple timber frame
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And I dont know who is prouder
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Davey or his old man
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But you can see in in their faces and the way they said his name
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They're missin' Slim
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Missin' Slim
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The bush has lost a hero and we all remember him
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He was our mate
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He was the king
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We're missing slim
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Missin' Slim
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Scotty is a mountain man
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Hard as snowy granite
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But when "Pub" came on the radio I swear I saw a tear
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His life was a movie
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Slim Dusty was the soundtrack
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But he never thought the end was ever quite so near
Chorus
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They're missin' Slim
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Missin' Slim
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The bush has lost a hero and we all remember him
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He was our mate
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He was the king
G A
We're missing slim
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Missin' Slim
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On the plains of peppimenarti
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To the end of the Canning Stock-route
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Three rivers and that Calahands and out to Camowheal
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At Collingullie Station
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Charleville and Isa
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Where the rain still tumbles down back there in Nulla Nulla Creek
Chorus
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Where're missin' Slim
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Missin' Slim
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The bush has lost a hero and we all remember him
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Where're missin' Slim
A
Missin' Slim
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Australia's lost a legend and we all remember him
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He was our mate..Ohhhhhh
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He was the king
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We're missing Slim
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Missin' Slim
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Missin' Slim
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We're all missin' Slim
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There're missin'Slim
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There're all missing Slim
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Ohhhhhh..missin' Slim