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The London lights are far abeam	A
Behind a bank of cloud	B
Along the shore the gaslights gleam	A
The gale is piping loud	B
And down the Channel groping blind	C
We drive her through the haze	D
Towards the land we left behind	C
The good old land of never mind	C
And old Australian ways	D
	-
The narrow ways of English folk	E
Are not for such as we	F
They bear the long accustomed yoke	E
Of staid conservancy	F
But all our roads are new and strange	G
And through our blood there runs	H
The vagabonding love of change	G
That drove us westward of the range	G
And westward of the suns	H
	-
The city folk go to and fro	I
Behind a prison's bars	J
They never feel the breezes blow	I
And never see the stars	J
They never hear in blossomed trees	K
The music low and sweet	L
Of wild birds making melodies	K
Nor catch the little laughing breeze	K
That whispers in the wheat	L
	-
Our fathers came of roving stock	M
That could not fixed abide	N
And we have followed field and flock	M
Since e'er we learnt to ride	N
By miner's camp and shearing shed	O
In land of heat and drought	P
We followed where our fortunes led	O
With fortune always on ahead	O
And always further out	P
	-
The wind is in the barley grass	Q
The wattles are in bloom	A
The breezes greet us as they pass	Q
With honey sweet perfume	A
The parakeets go screaming by	R
With flash of golden wing	S
And from the swamp the wild ducks cry	R
Their long drawn note of revelry	F
Rejoicing at the Spring	S
	-
So throw the weary pen aside	N
And let the papers rest	T
For we must saddle up and ride	N
Towards the blue hill's breast	T
And we must travel far and fast	U
Across their rugged maze	D
To find the Spring of Youth at last	U
And call back from the buried past	U
The old Australian ways	D
	-
When Clancy took the drover's track	V
In years of long ago	I
He drifted to the outer back	V
Beyond the Overflow	I
By rolling plain and rocky shelf	W
With stockwhip in his hand	X
He reached at last oh lucky elf	W
The Town of Come and help yourself	W
In Rough and ready Land	X
	-
And if it be that you would know	I
The tracks he used to ride	N
Then you must saddle up and go	I
Beyond the Queensland side	N
Beyond the reach of rule or law	Y
To ride the long day through	Z
In Nature's homestead filled with awe	A2
You then might see what Clancy saw	Y
And know what Clancy knew	Z

Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)

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