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