Kelly's Offsider - 1996 Digital Remaster - Slim Dusty

Well they told me tonight that Kelly's offsider just died

I put my head in my hands

And I just couldn't help but I cried

And there's no use you telling me now

That's the way of all life

We're kind of different with Kelly

Cause the offsider was his wife

It was just a nickname the truckies all knew her by

We'd all give her a wave

And a blast of the horn as we'd fly

And if Kelly pulled over

And stopped by the road for a spell

Kelly's grin and the offsider's smile

Made us pull in as well

Well the off-sider rode all of the highways

There were to ride

Nowhere in the world was she happy but by Kelly's side

An after a while we all said

That she brought us good luck

But to them the whole world

Was the cabin of a roaring truck

So it's hard to take in that Kelly's offsider just died

But Kelly's gonna take his offsider for one last ride

With a casket of ashes an a semi that's rolling slow

Kelly's heading for a place on the highway

The truckies all know

And he'll be leaving her where the tall trees bend an sigh

Where she won't be lonely

Cause she'll hear the big wheels rolling by

And the sound of the horns from the trucks

Passing day and night

Kelly's offsider will be riding with him til he died

Well they told me tonight that Kelly's offsider just died

I put my head in my hands

And I just couldn't help but I cried

And it's no use you telling me now

That's the way of all life

Kind a different with Kelly

Cause the offsider was his wife

Oh kind a different with Kelly

Cause the offsider was his wife