When The Rain Tumbles Down In July

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Let me wander north to the homestead
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Way out further on there to roam
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By a gully in flood let me linger
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When the summery sunshine has flown
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Where the logs tangle up on the creek bed
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And the clouds veil the old northern sky
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And the cattle move back from the lowlands
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When the rain tumbles down in July

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The settlers with sad hearts are watching
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The rise of the stream from the dawn
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Their best crops are always in flood reach
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If it rises much more they'll be gone
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The cattle string out along the fences
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As the breeze from the south races by
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And the limbs from the old gums are falling
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When the rain tumbles down in July

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The old sleeping gums by the river
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Awaken to herds straying by
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From the flats where the fences have vanished
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As the storm clouds gather on high
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The wheels of the wagons stop turning
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And the stock horse is turned out to stray
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And the old station dogs are a-dozing
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On the husks in the barn through the day

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The drover draws rein by the river
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It?s been years since he's seen it so high
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And that's just a story of homeward
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When the rain tumbles down in July