The Birdsville Track(Remaster 1996)

歌詞

Way out in heartbreak corner in Australia's far outback The desert broods its secrets along the Birdsville track A family came and perished oh what a tragic end That fierce relentless desert has claimed so many men I've learned how thirst can craze the mind in cruel heat outback And I grieve for that poor family along the Birdsville track The great white ball of fire rode o'er the cloudless dome And scorched all living creatures upon the sand and stone Way out in heartbreak corner they went and ne'er came back And another story's buried there along the Birdsville track Then twilight fell with calmness as silent as a tomb And phantom streams reflected the rising of the moon The days and nights that followed brought panic and despair And blinding sandstorms raged as though to drown a mother's prayer Then demons of the desert came to claim their tortured minds And searching bushmen came too late and read the tragic signs And now beside a coolabah where desert grasses wave The brumby stallion leads his mob to skirt the new made graves Way out in heartbreak corner they went and ne'er came back May twilight bring them peace at night along the Birdsville track The dingoes howl so dismally the lonely curlews cry As though in deepest mourning for those poor souls who died Way out in heartbreak corner in Australia's far outback The desert broods its secrets along the Birdsville track Oh the desert broods its secrets along the Birdsville track.