Stawell

For it's World known footrace it has won renown
But it is it's people make Stawell such a welcoming Town
As hospitable a people as i have ever known
They greet every stranger in Stawell as one of their own
Suppose Stawell of grumpy people would not be free
But more happy people living there than in most places it does seem to me
Everybody i met there smiled and bid me good day
To Stawell it's people are a credit in truth i can say
Every year at Easter the Stawell Gift is run
A ten seconds dash for glory at the sound of the starters gun
On the sidewalks of Stawell every past Gift winner his name embedded on a steel plate
Every gift winner in the Grampian Town his own history create
But it is it's people that make Stawell such a beautiful place
Where they greet every stranger as a local face.