Intro: D
verse 1
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Shopping on a Saturday in 1945,
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Going in to Tenterfield, a two mile buggy ride,
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Grandma, mum and grandfather, he did all the driving,
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Me perched up beside him, old dog alongside.
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Go Ted let the pony have a head now,
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We'll fly along Casino Road.
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Hey Ted, remember what you told me,
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Easy, whips don't lighten load.
verse 2
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Pull up at Hopsing & Co, Store and General Merchants,
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Grandad heads inside to buy some seed and bailing wire.
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Twelve gauge shotgun cartridges, saltlick for the bayron,
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Ice cream for the half grown young man at his side.
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Then on to Kinipin Son Leathergoods and Saddles,
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Topics for discussion there are weather, beasts and fires.
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They've repaired the bridle that busted on a gum tree,
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When my pony through me, tried to jump barbed wire.
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On we go to Royal Hotel tucker, grog shop talking,
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Neighbour farmers say g'day, exchange the harvest news.
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Season come and season go, life remains a battle,
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Drovers talk of cattle, rocky river ewes.
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Go Ted let the pony have a head now,
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We'll fly along Casino Road.
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Hey Ted, remember what you told me,
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Easy, whips don't lighten load.
verse 3
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Stretched along the homeward track, tigersnake sunbaking,
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Granddad hits the brake to try and kill it with a slide.
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Just missed – look out! Now the thing is tangled in the back spokes,
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Blimey this is no joke, everybody fly.
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Buggy stands abandoned ship, grandma holds the pony,
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We all watch with baited breath as granddad kneels a stride,
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The back seat of his Cadillac, aiming for the right spot,
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Slowly squeezes one shot, all that is required.
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Clamber back on board again, set off at a fast trot,
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Granddad takes some flack about the nature of his slide,
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Hears it out good-humouredly, hard to raise his hackles,
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Winks at me and cackles, don't know till you've tried.
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Go Ted let the pony have a head now,
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We'll fly along Casino Road.
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Hey Ted, remember what you told me,
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Easy, whips don't lighten load.
verse 4
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There's the farm up on the hill, shining like a beacon,
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Soon we're home unloaded and the gear is stashed away.
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Supper time by lantern light, then round the piano,
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Family in tableau, sing to end the day.
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Mountain bush and southern sky still the same as ever,
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Graves upon the hillside mark the time that's passed away.
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Now I come to think of it memory has no curtain,
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Life was lived for certain, old and in the way.
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Go Ted let the pony have a head now,
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We'll fly along Casino Road.
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Hey Ted, remember what you told me,
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Easy, whips don't lighten load.
OUTRO
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