The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #168402 Message #4117875
Posted By: Stewie
25-Aug-21 - 08:58 PM
Thread Name: Mudcat Australia-New Zealand Songbook
Subject: RE: Mudcat Australia/NZ Songbook
DROVER (RAINBIRD IN THE TEA-TREE)
(Peter Cape)
When the rainbird sings in the tea-tree
And there's cloud on the hills at the back
Look out your window and you'll see me
Riding down the track
I'll be droving a mob of black-polls
And me dogs'll be footsore and done
But I'll sing out as I go past your window
To show you, you're the one
It's a long drove out from the Puhoi
By Woodcocks and Kaipara Flat
And I'm sick of me oilskins and gumboots
And the rain belting down on my hat
Got a stock whip over my shoulder
And a plain golden ring in my pack
So perhaps when I get to your window
I'll be pulling in off the track
Lyrics as printed in 'An Ordinary Joker: the life & songs of Peter Cape'.
Youtube clip
--Stewie.