Inisfail Rain Song by Bill Scott, Sung by Penny Davies and Roger Illott Rain In my hair rain in my face Muddy old Innisfail's a bloody muddy place. chorus Hey rain, Rain comin' down on the cane On the roofs of the town. Hey rain. Hey rain. Bloke from the west nearly died of fright 'cause the river rose 35 feet last night ch Rain in me hair ,rain in me grub They'v just fitted anchors to the Garrudunga pub ch Johnson river crocodile livin' in me fridge And a bloody great tree on the Jubilee bridge ch Monsoon sky has sprung a leak From Flying Fish Point to the Millstream bridge ch Clouds in the sky so black and big And an old flying fox in a Morton Bay fig ch Worst wet season we've ever had I'd swim down to Tully but it's just as bloody bad. ch Innisfail is on the north east coast of Australia near Cairns and is in the centre of an area known as the"Super wet tropics" where annual rainfall is measured in feet or meters rather than inches or millimeters Three towns, Babinda Innisfail and Tully vie yearly for the "Golden Gum Boot" award. Babinda where I live had 3.77 meters or 12.5 feet of rain last year (1997)and 971 mm or 3 feet this January
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