Keeping Me Here Songtext
von Celeste Clabburn

It′s a mountain in the distance
A sunrise behind its back
It's early morning fog
Smothering the flat

It′s a new lamb in the clover
Feeding from its mum
It's a comfy tractor cab
Heated by the sun

It's round bales in the corner
Standing neatly in a line
It′s a truck load full of wool bales
Heading out the drive

It′s yabbies in the summer
And mushrooms in July
From time to time
That keeps me here
Keeping me here
That keeps me here
Keeping me here


It's the shearing in the autumn
And the smell that fills the shed
Of lanolin and tobacco
That wakes a weary head

It′s the saleyards on a Wednesday
With shouting auctioneers
Buyers scribbling numbers
And nervous looking steers

It's a yellow collared Kelpie
Working round the clock
She′s satisfied and happy
As she's bringing in the stock

And it′s sitting near the dam
And catching rainbow trout

From time to time
That keeps me here
Keeping me here
That's what keeps me here
Keeping me here

It's an old ute with a trailer
Chugging on like a train
With hungry pregnant ewes
Scoffing down the grain


It′s cheeky crossbred lambs
Sneaking through a fence

It′s tomatoes in the garden
Warm bickies on the bench

Stubbies in the wool shed
Brown and cold and yum

And brand new shiny puppies
Protected by their mum

And there's something ′bout this place
That hypnotizes me

From time to time
And keeps me here
Keeping me here
That's what keeps me here
Keeping me here

Keeping me here
Keeping me here
That′s what keeps me here
Keeping me here