Keppie Coutts: Music
Toil and Shame
(Keppie Coutts/Ashleigh Caudill)
Hard times roll in
Like a train rumbling down that Darwin line
Bringing hardship and pain
Leaving nothin’ but trouble behind
Oh the toil and shame
Oh the toil and shame
Oh the toil and shame
Wasting time scrounging just enough
For a three-penny bet
Drowning woes by drinkin’
Sinkin’ into debt
Oh the toil and shame
Oh the toil and shame
Oh the toil and shame
I worked my bones
Til they were brittle and broken
I drank myself dry
For nothin’ seems to change
Empty pockets, hole is my shoes
Scapin’ barren ground
Paid my earthly dues
Now I lay my body down