Slim Dusty - Big John

[@johnconlon7627]

Australia's last true poet.

[@daltonaustin5797]

Hi im dalton this is the sweetest country music of all time ❤Rip slimdusty

[@warrenhennessy7684]

this song is funny as well as probably true it ALSO reminds me of the duke John Wayne God bless you all from warren and ingrid Melbourne Australia it's as cold 🥶 as a mother in law kiss😂😂 God bless slims family 🇦🇺🇦🇺🎻🎸🪕🤠🤠🎶🎶

[@warrenhennessy7684]

oh yeah sounds like John Wayne God bless you and your family Warren and Ingrid Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺🦘🦘🐨🐨🇦🇺😇

[@TheTowno]

I love this song thanks mate

[@Isaac-ho8gh]

I got this album! Haha.. This is a good song too.

[@HiWayLady49]

The ad at the end of this video has a lovely violin playing. I wish I could find the music for this.

[@EarlJohn61]

For me, the ad was an explanation of currency trading! :(

[@johnpatterson8697]

2:42 “Never mind that shit, HERE COMES MONGO.” kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJfPn2CYe62Dnq8

[@daveman5980]

I bet the Aussie Big John would eat Big bad John for breakfast, by Jimmy Dean

[@gomikmay]

No arguments here🤓

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

I related this tale to a yank while I was in Nth Qld - and he believed it!... I kid you not.

[@johnpatterson8697]

The song is very reminiscent of characters from American Tall Tales and Folklore Like Paul Bunion, John Henry, and Davy Crockett en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_tale#American_tall_tale some are obvious fantasy, others are exaggerations of real life figures en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigger_Johnson

[@lawrencebrady1097]

I really do like Slim Dusty! His music has a lot in common with American Country Music. I'd love to have a beer with Penguin, Daniel, and Lilly R, 'cause they could be my mates! ;-)

[@coraltroutfishing]

not sure if it was Slims song ,,But !! he woulda sung it over 50 yrs ago ..!!:)

[@bigesjohn7727]

♫♫♫♫♫♫

[@kentamitchell]

*Some* of us Yanks heard Jackie Gleason tell that story on TV almost 50 years ago.

[@jefframblerman8268]

ha ha fun

[@excell123]

Hi could u upload the first song off this album called When The Scrubbers Break. Thanks

[@TheAndroia]

ROFLMBO ... I had to play this one again just in case I didn't get it right the first time. LOL

[@fdbob1]

What is going on I can't play slim dusty

[@lawrencebrady1097]

It just occurred to me: they can't play this song in Australia any more. Big John can't be "a killer with a gun;" no one knows what a gun is any more down there! Still a good song, though.

[@genuinepenguinproductions4547]

You can still own a gun in Australia it's just safer than the yank's laws.

[@danieldal-bon5879]

Australia is one of the biggest firearms importers in the world

[@lillyr9289]

im australian and i know several people who own guns, thats probably because I live in the bush

[@genuinepenguinproductions4547]

most of my family and friends own guns. The best steak is the one you shot as my uncle would say.

[@lawrencebrady1097]

One of the differences between AUS and the US is their origin. The US was born in revolution by 13 individual colonies who formed independent States which feared too strong of a central government. That's why it took two tries before we arrived at a consensus on a central government, the Constitution of the United States. Even then there was distrust of a central government, so the first ten Amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, were adopted. The First Amendment guaranteed freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, and the right to petition Government to address grievances. The Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, not for sport or hunting but to ensure the security of a free state. These were obviously the most important ones. It's my opinion that the Second protects the First, the other eight and the rest of the Constitution. Australia was founded as an off-shore penal colony for Mother England. Only Guards and free colonists were allowed to have firearms. Gun control more or less has a longer history in Australia than in the US. I live in a State (the Democratic Peoples Republic of Maryland) where I can own certain handguns and long rifles and shotguns but not others. I also do not meet the "good and substantial reason" to obtain a concealed carry license. The only people who can carry in the DPRM are active and retired Law Enforcement Officers, those with a documented threat against them, those with a perceived threat (judges, prosecutors, lawyers, politicians), those who routinely carry large sums of money or large quan of valuables, and criminals. Criminals are not supposed to carry any weapon, open or concealed, but being criminals they do as they damn well please. As your own Senator David Leyonhjelm said o f Australia after the Lindt cafe deaths, we are a State of “disarmed victims”.

[@vincentmillwood]

Iron knob hotel sa

[@Isaac-ho8gh]

+John Shepherd nah mate, this song was recorded in the 70's.

[@coraltroutfishing]

+Isaac Raschke i forgot wht i posted ??

[@Isaac-ho8gh]

Lol, you placed a comment saying "Slim would've sung this song around 50 years ago!" and I told ya it was from the 70's since I bought 5 Slim Dusty albums recently in a 70's Slim Dusty collection. This album is one of them.

[@tommac4326]

it was written by Rodney Gow. who toured with slim in the 60's. he died on a motorbike while supporting Slim in Darwin. tribute track, rest in peace Rod and Slim

[@Isaac-ho8gh]

Ah right and RIP Slim.

[@zemumma]

@@tommac4326 Rodney is my big bro...thank you, still missed and loved.

[@EarlJohn61]

Sounds like me a bit (lol)

[@ronniecorpus8331]

Hi 👋😊 to whom it may concern.... the queen 👑 should say sorry to the nitive title holder of Australia say by the highest court of Australia Law offices and may God save the queen.