SCRUB AND BLACKBERRY
(Paul Bond)

Refrain.
Here's to the home I've left so long
Far in the back country
Hidden in the rushes, the scrub and the blackberry

Muddy paths and potholes
Tractor tracks and postholes
Mossy battens dangling there on the wire
And the open fire

Six-inch nails and hay bales
Warratahs and sliprails
Dogs and children yapping away in your ear
And the air so clear

Refrain

Days of chipping thistles
Curses and dog whistles
Crutching in the yard with a flash of the shears
As the evening nears,

Talking round the table
Loud guffaws and babble
Families now split up and splintered like kindling wood
But the life was good

Refrain

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This song was the winner of the NZ Folk Federation songwriting competition in 1981.

--Stewie.