Salisbury Street 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

Hey True Blue, don't say you've gone Say you've knocked off for a smoko And you'll be back la-ater on Hey True Blue, Hey True Blue Give it to me straight, face to face Are you real...Read Full Lyrics

Oh there once was a swagman camped in a billabong Under the shade of a coolibah tree And he sang as he looked at his old billy boiling Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me Choru...Read Full Lyrics

Engaged to be married to a life on the land In the Kurrajong shade he's asked for your hand And the shade disappears as he waits for your answer There's sheep and there's cattle to...Read Full Lyrics