Key: C
Introduction:
C G C
Let me wander north to the homestead
F C
Way out further on there to roam
F C Am
By a gully in flood let me linger
C D7 G
When the summery sunshine has flown
C G C
Where the logs tangle up on the creek bed
F C
And the clouds veil the old northern sky
F C Am
And the cattle move back from the lowlands
C G C
When the rain tumbles down in July
C G C
The settlers with sad hearts are watching
F C
The rise of the stream from the dawn
F C Am
Their best crops are always in flood reach
C D7 G
If it rises much more they'll be gone
C G C
The cattle string out along the fences
F C
As the breeze from the south races by
F C Am
And the limbs from the old gums are falling
C G C
When the rain tumbles down in July
C G C
The old sleeping gums by the river
F C
Awaken to herds straying by
F C Am
From the flats where the fences have vanished
C D7 G
As the storm clouds gather on high
C G C
The wheels of the wagons stop turning
F C
And the stock horse is turned out to stray
F C Am
And the old station dogs are a-dozing
D D7 G
On the husks in the barn through the day
C G C
The drover draws rein by the river
F C
It?s been years since he's seen it so high
F C Am
And that's just a story of homeward
C G C F C
When the rain tumbles down in July