Far North Of South Australia

He is from the home of the dark pale eyed crow
Where old River Murray through bare brown paddocks flow
A flat landscape where only rough grass tussocks grow
As near to the Pacific it crawls on deep silent and slow

It has been awhile since he last saw Tailem Bend
An old Town where he did have many a friend
But going back the years that now seems long ago
In time he does reckon three decades or so

In Tailem Bend he feels he'd be a stranger today
His once brown hair now looking silvery gray
There he fell in love for the very first time
As a teenager six to eight years from his prime

He turned fifty on his birthday last year in July
On looking back the Seasons how fast time did fly
The son that he fathered is now twenty three
As a six month old baby him he did last see

Far north of South Australia he is living today
Where the Murray to the Pacific slowly winds it's way
Through a very old countryside flat bare and brown
By Tailem Bend and by Old Tailem Town.