Have you seen the old stockman at the functions and balls
He drinks while they serve him and he sleeps where he falls
He'll be crook sunday but he'll turn up monday
Through he wonders if one day he'll bother at all
Cause they've turned out the horses the whole bloody plant
And he'd ride a bike if he could but he can't
And if you live to chase cattle you'll die where you are
And he's back he's back on the grader again
He got married young on a wing and a prayer
And it promised the world but they didn't go there
'Cos the wet season ends and away like the damp
He shoulders his saddle and he's back in the camp
Cause they've turned out the horses the whole bloody plant
And he'd ride a bike if he could but he can't
And if you live to chase cattle you'll die where you are
And he's back he's back on the grader again
He can't get the books cause he can't read or write
And he's to old for drivin' a road train at night
The windmills to high and the fencings to hard
He's to proud for the garden to slow for the yard
Cause they've turned out the horses the whole bloody plant
And he'd ride a bike if he could but he can't
And if you live to chase cattle you'll die where you are
And he's back he's back on the grader again
Chorus
Cause they've turned out the horses the whole bloody plant
And he'd ride a bike if he could but he can't
And if you live to chase cattle you'll die where you are
And he's back he's back on the grader again