Tom: C
C G C
Let me wander north to the homestead
F C
way out further on there to roam
F C
by a gully in flood let me linger
C G
when the summery sunshine has flown
C G C
Where the logs tangle up on the creek bed
F C
and the clouds veil the old northern sky
F C
and the cattle move back from the lowlands
C G C
when the rain tumbles down in July
C G C
The settlers with sad hearts are watching
F C
the rise of the stream from the dawn
F C
their best crops are always in floodreach
C G
if it rises much more they'll be gone
C G C
The cattle string out along the fences
F C
as the breeze from the south races by
F C
and the limbs from the old gums are falling
C G C
when the rain tumbles down in July
C G C
The old sleeping gums by the river
F C
awaken to herds straying by
F C
from the flats where the fences have vanished
C G
as the storm clouds gather on high
C G C
The wheels of the wagons stop turning
F C
and the stock horse is turned out to stray
F C
and the old station dogs are a-dozing
G
on the husks in the barn through the day
C G C
The drover draws rein by the river
F C
it's been years since he's seen it so high
F C
and that's just a story of homeward
C G C F C
when the rain tumbles down in July
