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Now the stock have started dying for the Lord has sent a drought	A
But we're sick of prayers and Providence we're going to do without	A
With the derricks up above us and the solid earth below	B
We are waiting at the lever for the word to let her go	B
Sinking down deeper down	C
Oh we'll sink it deeper down	C
As the drill is plugging downward at a thousand feet of level	D
If the Lord won't send us water oh we'll get it from the devil	D
Yes we'll get it from the devil deeper down	C
Now our engine's built in Glasgow by a very canny Scot	E
And he marked it twenty horse power but he don't know what is what	F
When Canadian Bill is firing with the sun dried gidgee logs	G
She can equal thirty horses and a score or so of dogs	H
Sinking down deeper down	C
Oh we're going deeper down	C
If we fail to get the water then it's ruin to the squatter	I
For the drought is on the station and the weather's growing hotter	I
But we're bound to get the water deeper down	C
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But the shaft has started caving and the sinking's very slow	B
And the yellow rods are bending in the water down below	B
And the tubes are always jamming and they can't be made to shift	J
Till we nearly burst the engine with a forty horse power lift	J
Sinking down deeper down	C
Oh we're going deeper down	C
Though the shaft is always caving and the tubes are always jamming	K
Yet we'll fight our way to water while the stubborn drill is ramming	K
While the stubborn drill is ramming deeper down	C
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But there's no artesian water though we've passed three thousand feet	L
And the contract price is growing and the boss is nearly beat	L
But it must be down beneath us and it's down we've got to go	B
Though she's bumping on the solid rock four thousand feet below	B
Sinking down deeper down	C
Oh we're going deeper down	C
And it's time they heard us knocking on the roof of Satan's dwellin'	C
But we'll get artesian water if we cave the roof of hell in	C
Oh we'll get artesian water deeper down	C
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But it's hark the whistle's blowing with a wild exultant blast	M
And the boys are madly cheering for they've struck the flow at last	M
And it's rushing up the tubing from four thousand feet below	B
Till it spouts above the casing in a million gallon flow	B
And it's down deeper down	C
Oh it comes from deeper down	C
It is flowing ever flowing in a free unstinted measure	I
From the silent hidden places where the old earth hides her treasure	I
Where the old earth hides her treasures deeper down	C
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And it's clear away the timber and it's let the water run	C
How it glimmers in the shadow how it flashes in the sun	C
By the silent bells of timber by the miles of blazing plain	C
It is bringing hope and comfort to the thirsty land again	C
Flowing down further down	C
It is flowing deeper down	C
To the tortured thirsty cattle bringing gladness in its going	K
Through the droughty days of summer it is flowing ever flowing	K
It is flowing ever flowing further down	C

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