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John Schumann
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The wind out here's like a cross-cut saw, the land is red and green
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The summer sun's hanging in a pale blue sky, the air is sharp and clean
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There's a frozen moment in waving grain, food for a hungry world
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But we can't clothe ourselves with the check, we can barely feed ourselves
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At night I lie awake and worry and the debts go round and round
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Furrows in my night time forehead,
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And furrows on borrowed ground
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There's and old galv shed with a laughing lean, it's kept the tractor dry
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I remember the day when we knocked it up with stringy bark and fencing wire
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The earthen floor's been beaten hard, where the rain hasn't cut a path
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I'm frightened to look because I'm beaten too and the mice run through the chaff
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And I lie on my bed, staring into the red
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And the overdraft won't come down
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And it's hard work keeping your family together,
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Living on borrowed ground
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And I don't blame your brother, son, for moving into town
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It's no place here for a bright young man,
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Living on borrowed ground.
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And I watch all the programs on the ABC,
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After the sun's gone down
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Lucy Broad's talking on "Countrywide",
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Talking about borrowed ground.
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We don't own this place anymore and I don't know how or why.
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There's some money-men coming from Sydney who tell me it's only a matter or time.
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Well, I hope they can read the seasons and they're not here just to muck around
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Cause they've still got to feed a nation,
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They've got to feed them from borrowed ground.
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