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Daniel Johns
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V1/ It's a long way I've travelled to nowhere
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and my dreams they unravel in time
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to ride the warm wind in the lonely high gum trees
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in the blue of the soft summer sky
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in the blue of the soft summer sky.
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V2/ Sutherland's five miles up the serene North West Arm
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there's the school and the places I knew,
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where I lived and I cried the lost love I denied in
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frosty mornings scratchin' firewood from the dew,
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for a fuel stove softly simmerin' winter stew.
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bridge...Grandma lives nextdoor in an old fibro house
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a straggly hedge growin' up thru the lines,
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she's eighty this year and the love of the family
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and the backyard's overgrowin' ivy vines
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nd she tells me of her life and never minds.
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V3/ The westerlies in summer are scortching
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we've had bushfire smoke choke out the haze
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in the winter you tramp icy winds chilled and damp in
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cutting cold of the sun's crystal rays.
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V4/I can hear the cicidas in the trees near our house
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and the shimmerin' river's soft sounds
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of the dogs and the children in splashing
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on the water through sandstone high ground...
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you can hear the kurrawongs swooping down
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you can hear the kurrawongs swooping down...ahhhh
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end
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This song is about a man who grew up in North West Arm in Australia near the small town of Sutherland.
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