Purple Roses Lyrics

What am I gonna do - what about the future? Gotta draw the line without delay Why shouldn't I get emotional - the bush is sacred Ancient life will fade away Over the hill they go, ...Read Full Lyrics

She had her back to him As he walked in through the door He'd been down in the forest He said, "I cut me a walkin' stick palm Down by the stingin' tree Never thought I'd see the da...Read Full Lyrics

Now's not the time for wailin' While there's water in the river We'll all lay down and cry when it's gone I'll be a jackass and laugh at every sunrise Celebrate the day when it's b...Read Full Lyrics

Send down the rain, Lord, if you don't mind. Send down the rain, lightning and thunder, If my crops don't get a drink we cannot stay I'll take my wife and kid's. .. An' just walk a...Read Full Lyrics

I'll sing you the desert, where blackmen sailed Waterhole to water, where whitemen failed See the face of dreamers, forgotten souls Hear the voice of cattlemen crackle in the coals...Read Full Lyrics

What am I doing here? On the banks of the Diamantina Where only skinny dingoes and horny lizards go The moon is loud and clear Like the notes on m' concertina I'll play another dro...Read Full Lyrics

They called him Camel Boy But he was a man He walked behind us... With a billy He tended the campfire... And he made the tea Drowned in the colours... We didn't see And the ghost ...Read Full Lyrics

They couldn't understand why the drover cried As they buried the drover's boy The drover had always seemed so hard To the men in his employ A bolting horse, the stirrup lost And t...Read Full Lyrics

Hey, did you ever wake up in the morning On the wrong side of the bed I bit confused and yawning You go straight out the back to your shed Yeah, all Australian boys need a shed A p...Read Full Lyrics

I'm into cattle, my Father was too From Great Great Grandfather all the way through And we scarcely have wasted an hour of daylight Stickin' to Herefords and it's been all right Pr...Read Full Lyrics