Donuel, it's funny you should ask whether My Country has been made into a song. I was trying to remember whether I had ever heard it sung by someone a long time ago.

The answer is, I don't know.

However, on reading the article I just linked to, I found out that Dorothea Mackellar lived in the Hunter Valley, not far from where I grew up when she wrote the poem, and she was inspired to write it after the breaking of a drought. The article mentions Barrington Tops which is where the rain occurred in relation to the video of the water coming down the creek in the article I linked to previously: "dry Moonan Brook surge back to life".

We are wishing, hoping and praying for the drought to finally break here, and to put out the last of the bushfires, but not for too much rain because we don't want floods. A delicate balance. There could finally be rain on Sunday around Canberra and the south coast of NSW and down into Victoria. That might start to put out the fires down there.