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