Rain Tumbles Down Songtext
von The Bushwackers

Let me wander north to the homestead
Way out farther on the torong
By a gully in flood let me linger
When the sunburning sunshine has flown
Where the logs tangle up on the creek bed
And the clouds veil the old northern sky
And the cattle move back from the lowlands

When the rain tumbles down in July


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

When the rain tumbles down in July

The old sleeping gums by the river
They awaken to herds straying by
From the flats where the fences have vanished
As the storm clouds gather on high

The wheels of the wagons stop turning
And the stock horses turned out to stray
And the old station dogs, they're a-dozing
On the husks in the barn through the day

And the drover draws rain by the river
It′s been years since he's seen it so high
And that's just a story among woods

When the rain tumbles down in July