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'Twas old Flynn the identity told us	A
That the creek always ran pretty high	B
But that fossicking veteran sold us	A
And he lied as his quality lie	B
Through a tangle of ranges and ridges	C
Down a track that is blazed with our hide	D
Over creeks minus crossings and bridges	C
High and low mere impertinent midges	C
Trying falls with the mighty Divide	D
	-
We came hauling the boxes and stampers	C
Or just nipping them in with a winch	E
Now and then in unfortunate scampers	C
Missing smash by the eighth of an inch	E
Round the spurs very daintily crawling	F
With one team pulling out in a row	G
And another lot heavenward hauling	F
Lest the whole bag of tricks should go sprawling	F
Into regions unheard of below	G
	-
We came through with the shanks and the shafting	F
And the frames and the wonderful wheel	H
Then we put in a month of hard grafting	F
Ere we nailed down the last scrap of deal	H
She beat true and with scarce a vibration	I
And we voted her queen of the mills	C
And a push from the wide desolation	I
Drifted in to our jollification	I
When her drumming was heard in the hills	C
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Now the discs by the cam shaft are rusting	F
And the stamps in the boxes are still	J
And a silence that's deep and disgusting	F
Seems to hang like a pall on the mill	J
Just a fortnight she ran then she rested	K
And we've little to do but complain	I
For a bird in the feed pipe has nested	K
And we've spent every stiver invested	K
And are praying for tucker and rain	I
	-
Billy's Creek theme of eloquent fables	C
Drips like sweat on the breast of the wheel	H
And the blankets are dry on the tables	C
And the sluice box is warped like an eel	H
Sudden dust clouds run lunatic races	C
In the red rocky bed down below	G
And the porcupine scrambles in places	C
Where Flinn swears by the faith he embraces	C
Fourteen inches of water should flow	G
	-
For a time we were proof against sorrow	G
And we harboured a cheerful belief	L
In the plenteous rains of to morrow	G
As we belted away at the reef	L
We piled quartz in the paddocks and hopper	M
And the pack horse came in once a week	N
Now our credit is not worth a copper	M
At the township and highly improper	M
Is the language the storekeepers speak	N
	-
We no longer talk brightly or snivel	G
Of our luck but we loaf very hard	O
Too disgusted to care to be civil	G
And too lazy to look at a card	O
Only George finds some slight consolation	I
Crushing prospects a couple a day	P
And then proving by multiplication	I
How much metal is in the formation	I
And the 'divvies' she'll probably pay	P
	-
But our leisure is qualified slightly	G
By the cattle from over the Fly	G
Who have taken to pegging out nightly	G
In our limited water supply	G
And the snakes have assisted in keeping	F
Things alive for the man you'll agree	G
Will be spry who may find he's been sleeping	F
With a tiger or chance on one creeping	F
In the water he wanted for tea	G
	-
Though our sweltering sky never changes	C
Squatter Clark up at Crowfoot complains	C
That prospectors out over the ranges	C
Have been chased out of camp by the rains	C
Veal the Methodist preacher at Spence's	C
Who the Cousin Jacks say is 'some tuss'	C
As a rain making parson commences	C
To enlarge on our sins and offences	C
And to blame all his failures on us	C
	-
We don't go to his church down the mountain	I
Seven miles is a wearisome trot	Q
With the glass playing up like a fountain	I
And the prayers correspondingly hot	Q
So on Sunday each suffering sinner	M
Has a simple convivial spree	G
A roast porcupine maybe for dinner	M
For we daily grow thinner and thinner	M
On the week's bread and treacle and tea	G
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We've been scared too of late by Golightly	G
Him who kept up his chin best of all	G
And predicted with confidence nightly	G
Heavy rains that neglected to fall	G
And enlarged on the sure indications	C
While we listened and wearily groaned	R
Of tremendous climatic sensations	C
Fearful tempests and great inundations	C
That it happened were always postponed	R
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He's gone daft through our many reverses	C
Or the sun has got on to his brain	I
For he cowers all day and he curses	C
To a fretful and wearing refrain	I
And at midnight he dolefully screeches	C
In the gloom of the desolate mill	G
Or he goes in his shirt making speeches	C
To the man in the moon whom he reaches	C
From the summit of Poverty Hill	G
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So we're waiting and watching and longing	F
With an impotent bitter desire	M
And new troubles and old ones come thronging	F
Drought and fever and famine and fire	M
And we know our misfortunes reviewing	F
All the pangs that in Hades betide	D
Where the damned sit eternally stewing	F
And through days never ending are suing	F
For the water that's ever denied	D

Edward Dyson

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