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 
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creek bed
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And the clouds veil the old 
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northern sky
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And the cattle move back from the 
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lowlands
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When the rain tumbles down in July

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The settlers with sad hearts are 
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watching
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The rise of the stream from the dawn
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Their best crops are always in 
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flood reach
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If it rises much more they'll be 
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gone
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The cattle string out along the 
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fences
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As the breeze from the south races 
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by
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And the limbs from the old gums are
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 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 
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have vanished
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As the storm clouds gather on high
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The wheels of the wagons stop 
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turning
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And the stock horse is turned out 
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to stray
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And the old station dogs are 
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a-dozing
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On the husks in the barn through 
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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 
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so high
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And that's just a story of 
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homeward
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When the rain tumbles down in July