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I met Jack Ellis in town to day	A
Jack Ellis my old mate Jack	B
Ten years ago from the Castlereagh	C
We carried our swags together away	A
To the Never Again Out Back	B
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But times have altered since those old days	D
And the times have changed the men	E
Ah well there's little to blame or praise	D
Jack Ellis and I have tramped long ways	D
On different tracks since then	E
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His hat was battered his coat was green	F
The toes of his boots were through	G
But the pride was his It was I felt mean	F
I wished that my collar was not so clean	F
Nor the clothes I wore so new	G
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He saw me first and he knew 'twas I	H
The holiday swell he met	I
Why have we no faith in each other Ah why	H
He made as though he would pass me by	H
For he thought that I might forget	I
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He ought to have known me better than that	J
By the tracks we tramped far out	K
The sweltering scrub and the blazing flat	J
When the heat came down through each old felt hat	J
In the hell born western drought	K
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The cheques we made and the shanty sprees	L
The camps in the great blind scrub	M
The long wet tramps when the plains were seas	L
And the oracles worked in days like these	L
For rum and tobacco and grub	M
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Could I forget how we struck the same	N
Old tale' in the nearer West	O
When the first great test of our friendship came	N
But well there's little to praise or blame	N
If our mateship stood the test	O
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Heads ' he laughed but his face was stern	P
Tails ' and a friendly oath	Q
We loved her fair we had much to learn	P
And each was stabbed to the heart in turn	P
By the girl who loved us both	Q
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Or the last day lost on the lignum plain	R
When I staggered half blind half dead	S
With a burning throat and a tortured brain	R
And the tank when we came to the track again	E
Was seventeen miles ahead	S
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Then life seemed finished then death began	T
As down in the dust I sank	U
But he stuck to his mate as a bushman can	T
Till I heard him saying Bear up old man '	-
In the shade by the mulga tank	U
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He took my hand in a distant way	A
I thought how we parted last	V
And we seemed like men who have nought to say	A
And who meet Good day' and who part Good day'	V
Who never have shared the past	V
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I asked him in for a drink with me	W
Jack Ellis my old mate Jack	B
But his manner no longer was careless and free	W
He followed but not with the grin that he	W
Wore always in days Out Back	B
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I tried to live in the past once more	X
Or the present and past combine	Y
But the days between I could not ignore	X
I couldn't help notice the clothes he wore	X
And he couldn't but notice mine	Y
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He placed his glass on the polished bar	Z
And he wouldn't fill up again	E
For he is prouder than most men are	Z
Jack Ellis and I have tramped too far	Z
On different tracks since then	E
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He said that he had a mate to meet	V
And I'll see you again ' said he	W
Then he hurried away through the crowded street	V
And the rattle of buses and scrape of feet	V
Seemed suddenly loud to me	W
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And I almost wished that the time were come	A2
When less will be left to Fate	V
When boys will start on the track from home	B2
With equal chances and no old chum	A2
Have more or less than his mate	V

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