There a light across the river and it's
making me dream
It's the last of the riverboats and it's
getting up steam
I can see it through the willows, I can hear it round the bend
The birds fly up and they're saying
It won't be back again
And the Riverboat knows just where the river goes
And someone throws me a line
The steam whistle moans, the paddle wheel groans
And the water shows me a sign
It's the last of the riverboats going home
I dreamed I took a journey
From Echuca to the lake
Drinkin on the promenade deck
Till I couldn't keep awake
I woke up with a vision from a different time
When the road was a river and the riverboat was mine
And the Riverboat knows just where the river goes
And someone throws me a line
The steam whistle moans, the paddle wheel groans
And the water shows me a sign
It's the last of the riverboats going home
Solo
Meanwhile we're living, lives we all know
Paying our tax and breaking our backs
With nothing left to show
Thinking of a future, of a day that'll come for sure
We'll take the riverboat and we'll fire it up once more
And the Riverboat knows just where the river goes
And someone throws me a line
The steam whistle moans, the paddle wheel groans
And the water shows me a sign
It's the last of the riverboats going home
And the Riverboat knows just where the river goes
goes
And someone throws me a line
The steam whistle moans, the paddle wheel groans
And the water shows me a sign
It's the last of the riverboats going home
This song is one of the most requested in Australia from the great Andrew Durant, member of 70's band