{"id":5307,"date":"2023-09-30T03:24:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5307"},"modified":"2023-09-30T03:24:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T17:24:12","slug":"hard-hard-country-by-slim-dusty-1968-its-the-heat-or-the-cold-to-extreme-in-the-winter-the-icy-winds-chill-you-or-the-cruel-summer-sun-fiercely-beams-for-its-a-hard-hard-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5307","title":{"rendered":"Hard Hard Country by Slim Dusty 1968. It\u2019s the heat or the cold to extreme. In the winter the icy winds chill you. Or the cruel summer sun fiercely beams. For it\u2019s a hard, hard country, it\u2019s a hard, hard land., And to live in it you\u2019ve got to be a hard, hard man."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"804\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6oWb5pe5blE\" title=\"Hard Hard Country (1999 Remaster)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt\u2019s a hard, hard country, it\u2019s a hard, hard land,<br \/>\nAnd to live in it you\u2019ve got to be a hard, hard man,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the vast inland regions of Australia,<br \/>\nWhere nature alone rules the way,<br \/>\nShe\u2019s the boss of the land and it\u2019s seasons,<br \/>\nAnd her rules we have learned to obey.<br \/>\nThere are only two seasons way out here,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the heat or the cold to extreme,<br \/>\nIn the winter the icy winds chill you,<br \/>\nOr the cruel summer sun fiercely beams<br \/>\nFor it\u2019s a hard, hard country, it\u2019s a hard, hard land,<br \/>\nAnd to live in it you\u2019ve got to be a hard, hard man.<br \/>\nWhen it rains there are oceans of water,<br \/>\nSpread for miles where the channel land lies,<br \/>\nThen the drought slowly kills ever onward,<br \/>\nWhere there\u2019s heat waves and dust and the flies.<br \/>\nThere are men far way out in the stock camps,<br \/>\nOver a hundred miles from town,<br \/>\nThey\u2019ve seen that great isolation,<br \/>\nThat\u2019s the place where the strong men are found,<br \/>\nFor it\u2019s a hard, hard country, it\u2019s a hard, hard land,<br \/>\nAnd to live in it you\u2019ve got to be a hard, hard man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a hard, hard country, it\u2019s a hard, hard land, And to live in it you\u2019ve got to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[436,1791,1129,1790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5308,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307\/revisions\/5308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}