Well, it isn't the Bogle song, but I thought I'd post it anyhow.
-Joe Offer-

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ACROSS THE HILLS OF HOME (Jimmy's Song)
(Eric Bogle & James McArthur)

Verse 1.
Where wide the Murrumbidgee flows, the stately gum and wattle grows
And deep within the forests tall the laughing Kookaburra's call
Across the miles and down the years, I dream, my eyes too old for tears
Of other scenes more fair than these and I chase a heather-scented breeze
Across the hills of home.

CHORUS
You take the low road, I'll take the high
And back to Scotland my spirit will fly
To see her one more time before I die
You take the low road and I'll take the high.

Verse 2.
And when the mists of evening rise to hide the starlight in the skies
My heart with longing sadness fills to see again the Scottish hills
Once more as in my boyhood days, I roam the bracken covered braes
And hear them singing in the glen "will ye no' come back again"
Across the hills of home

Verse 3.
Fast flows the river, faster still, the days of youth that never will return
Now only dreams remain, of purple hills and fields of grain
But still I hear across the miles the haunting calls of misty isles
Above the tidal water's roar, but I know that I shall go no more
Across the hills of home

(Words by Eric Bogle & James McArthur, music by Eric Bogle)

JRO