《Clean Up Our Own Backyard》是Slim Dusty演唱的歌曲，收錄於專輯《Looking Forward Looking Back》。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Clean Up Our Own Backyard
- 所屬專輯：Looking Forward Looking Back
- 歌曲原唱：Slim Dusty
- 發行日期：2000年7月16日
歌曲歌詞
There's an old rhyme that pits
Out time take it for what it's worth
Things are crook at Tallarook
And there ain't no work in Burke
But we still find room for the many
Who come a-knockin' at our door
And we sell our wide brown
Acres without a second thought
Some will say we are building
A nation rich and strong
But if you take a closer look at
It perhaps we've got it wrong
Makes you think maybe we're
A bit crazy doing it quite so hard
Shouldn't be a crime to take the time
To clean up our own backyard
In the country towns and the land around
In the city streets and slums
The dreamtime lore has gone before
And the walkabout is done
On the streets at night you see
The plight of our old ones and our young
And the Salvo refugge overflows
But still the people come
Just a little drop of caring in
An ocean of neglect
Can't stem the tide of anger from
The lost and dispossessed
In the land of promise keepin'
Our promise gets to be too hard
Shouldn't be a crime to take the time
To clean up our own backyard
Make you think maybe we're
A bit crazy doing it quite so hard
Shouldn't be a crime to take the time
To clean up our own backyard
