The Boss Man

Lyrics

(G'day, can I have a beer?) Well, he looked like an average stockman, but for the greasy hat So I said, Mate, you're a truckie––you won't deny me that He turned around with half a smile and said, Well, bless your eyes Boy, you've got perception, and it's really no surprise For I've spent my life behind a wheel, with freight across this land And there's not a thing on eighteen wheels that I can't take in hand I'm a Boss Man (Y'know, I, I thought you'd be handy with the wheel; I just was gonna …) But he said There's not a road in seven statеs that hasn't seen my tracks And I've jockeyed еvery rig they make––the Fodens, Whites, and Macks I've blown a set of tubes out, out on the stony plain Then stuffed the tires with spinifex and drove her on again I'm a Boss Man (That's right, mate, I know what it's like; one time I was out near Winton, y'know, out in the middle of the road, and I popped the engine cover …) But he said Have you crossed the Diamentina in the middle of the wet? I took a train once through it, mate; it's a trip I won't forget From Birdsville down to Marree, three hundred mile of bogs I didn't do it easy––she swung three double-decker dogs I'm a Boss Man (Well, I, I can say I been on the track with a truck as big as that, but just the same, I'm not gonna fib …) But he said One time I did a gearbox out on the black-soil plains But I got that outfit movin'; she was one of Wright's stock trains I hooked fourteen Brahma bullocks up with a mile of fencin' wire Then, like the bullockies of old, pulled her through to Nevertire I'm a Boss Man (Now, hold on a minute, mate, don't tell me you've tried old Skewie's drink-and-a-half one about the phantom bullock cart …) But he said I've hacked freight across the Nullarbor, and stock in the Great Nor' West Hauled minin' gear to the Isa, and I'd tackle Everest But there's one thing to be sure of––I'd get 'em there or bust Then he jumped into his Mini and drove off in a cloud of dust Yeah, the Boss Man (He was a few other things as well, I'd reckon)