The Wannon Shearer

The passing of time on him beginning to show
The bloke from the place where the dark Wannon flow
Through the old brown country by night and by day
To the distant ocean babbling on it's way

A fifty five year old shearer his hair silver gray
Time even wearies the best as some are known to say
Yet at shearing with the top young shearers he does hold his own
As The Wannon Shearer he is widely known

Though he has made love to many women he's never had a wife
And he does not know whether he has or has not fathered children in his travels in life
He has shorn in many shearing sheds in the big countryside flat and brown
And drunk in the pubs of many a bush town

In the shearing sheds it is hard work in the warmth of Summer-time
For a bloke from Victoria who is well past his prime
Yet at shearing he is one who holds his own with the best
Of the younger shearers of Queensland South West.