C5 G5 C5 Let me wander north to the homestead F5 C5 Way out further on there to roam F5 C5 A5 By a gully in flood let me linger C5 D5 G5 When the summery sunshine has flown C5 G5 C5 Where the logs tangle up on the creek bed F5 C5 And the clouds veil the old northern sky F5 C5 A5 And the cattle move back from the lowlands C5 G5 C5 When the rain tumbles down in July C5 G5 C5 The settlers with sad hearts are watching F5 C5 The rise of the stream from the dawn F5 C5 A5 Their best crops are always in flood reach C5 D5 G5 If it rises much more they'll be gone C5 G5 C5 The cattle string out along the fences F5 C5 As the breeze from the south races by F5 C5 A5 And the limbs from the old gums are falling C5 G5 C5 When the rain tumbles down in July C5 G5 C5 The old sleeping gums by the river F5 C5 Awaken to herds straying by F5 C5 A5 From the flats where the fences have vanished C5 D5 G5 As the storm clouds gather on high C5 G5 C5 The wheels of the wagons stop turning F5 C5 And the stock horse is turned out to stray F5 C5 A5 And the old station dogs are a-dozing D5 D5 G5 On the husks in the barn through the day C5 G5 C5 The drover draws rein by the river F5 C5 It?s been years since he's seen it so high F5 C5 A5 And that's just a story of homeward C5 G5 C5 F5 C5 When the rain tumbles down in July