Verse
Three Ibis Are Flying Down The Maribyrnong
Cars On The Westgate Will Be Home Before Long
In My Backyard I'm Writing This Song
As The Sun Sets Over Footscray
The Scallop Fleet's Rusting Down On The River
While At Sunshine Hospital They're About To Deliver
A Young Girl's First Child, Her Boyfriend Is With Her
As The Sun Sets Over Footscray
Chorus
Footscray Oh Footscray My Factory Town
Your Streets Are All Dead-Ends, All Go Round And Round
You're Not A Hard Place To Get To Just Hard To Get Out
I'll Probably Die Here In Footscray
Verse
Sailors Pass Through By Road And By Rail
Forges Is Holding This Month's Annual Sale
A Housewife Is Out Delivering Junk Mail
For Some Extra Cash Here In Footscray
Bill Miller Is Out For A Beer With His Mates
While At Yarraville Station They've Closed The Gates
And For The Next Fifteen Minutes The Traffic Just Waits
As The Sun Sets Over Footscray
Chorus
Footscray Oh Footscray You're The Pearl Of The South
It's True Coz I Heard It From Ted Whitten's Mouth
You're Not A Hard Place To Get To Just Hard To Get Out
I'll Probably Die Here In Footscray
Verse
The Country's For Cockies, Toorak's For Swells
They Don't Know Footscray's Faces Or The Stories They Tell
If I Ever Win Tatts, I Might Move Somewhere Else
But I'll Probably Die Here In Footscray
Chorus
Footscray Oh Footscray My Factory Town
Your Streets Are All Dead-Ends, All Go Round And Round
You're Not A Hard Place To Get To Just Hard To Get Out
I'll Probably Die Here In Footscray
Footscray Oh Footscray You're The Pearl Of The South
It's True Coz I Heard It From Ted Whitten's Mouth
You're Not A Hard Place To Get To Just Hard To Get Out
I'll Probably Die Here In Footscray
We All Manage To Get By Here In Footscray
