RAINBIRD IN THE TEA-TREE Peter Cape When the Rainbird sings in the Tea-Tree There’s cloud on the hills out the back Look out of your window and you’ll see me I’ll be coming in off the track. I’ll be droving a mob of the black bulls The dogs’ll be footsore and done Call out as I go past your window Just to show you, you are The One. It’s a long drove up from the Puhoi By Woodcocks and Kaipara Flats I’ll be sick of my oilskins and my jumper And the rain pelting down on my back. I’ve a stockwhip over my shoulder And a plain gold ring in my pack Perhaps as I go past your window I’ll be coming in off the track. So when the Rainbird sings in the Tea-Tree There’s cloud on the hills out the back Look out of your window and you’ll see me I’ll be coming in off the track. Look out of your window and you’ll see me I’ll be coming in off the track. Another of those lovely EnZed songs, sung here by Chris Priestley & Friends : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8NG05fNHCk My question to me is : Will I ever make it to The Land of the Long White Cloud, in this Lifetime??!! ….. sigh ….. (s’pose maybe I already have - in a Parallel World, eh!! :) R-J
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