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