August In Illowa

The sun it is hidden behind clouds of gray
But the magpies are singing in Illowa today
And the magpie larks calling in their familiar pee wee
Familiar Australians one often hear and see
August in Illowa a cool and wet time of year
At the back end of Winter with the birth of Spring near
The migratory white cattle egrets eating insects disturbed by the cattle as they graze
The workings of Nature never cease to amaze
The first of the calendar Spring the first of September less than four weeks away
And the grass it is growing in a few months from now the farmers will be baling hay
In Illowa the blackbirds will soon be heard sing
In the warmer weather of September in the early Spring
The weather is often windy, wet and cool
In August in Illowa near the City of Warrnambool.