## I Fell In Love With This Song The First Time I Heard It.## Personally I Think It's Actually A Perfectly Written Piece Of Music. Everything In It Is Exactly Right.#### Play In 3/4 TimeVerse 1My Mothers And Fathers, They Tended The LandBrought Forth Food From The Soil With The Knowledge In Their HandsThe Pot Hanging Low Over Peat Fire AblazeAs It’s Hung Here For Uncounted Lifetimes Of DaysChorusAnd The Fire Went Out In The Morning So EarlyWe Took Down The Slabhraidh To Take On The JourneyNo Smoke And No Singing Warmed The Air Around GreaulainnAs We Stepped On A Boat Bound For MelbourneVerse 2There Are Papers In London That I Cannot ReadSaying The Land I Was Born On Belongs Not To MeAt The Will Of Captain Fraser They Moved Us AsideMoved Us Outwards Then Upwards Then Away With The TideChorusAnd The Fire Went Out In The Morning So EarlyWe Took Down The Slabhraidh To Take On The JourneyNo Smoke And No Singing Warmed The Air Around GreaulainnAs We Stepped On A Boat Bound For MelbourneVerse 3A New Life Was Born And A Young Life Was TakenOn The Boat To Victoria, Storm-Tossed And ShakenThis Land Of Promise Where The Sun Burns Our EyesThis Land Of Bright Futures, Endless And DryBridgeAnd The Government Told Us If We Cleared All The TreesBrought In Horses And Cattle To Keep Back The WeedsPlanted Regular Fields With Familiar SeedsThey Would Give Us The Land To Do With As We PleasedBut The Seasons Were Strange And The Crops Turned To DustAnd The Slabhraidh Lay Fallow And Riddled With RustAnd We Dreamed Of Green Pastures And A Sky We Could TrustOh How Far Can A Crow Fly From GreaulainnVerse 4Now The Papers In London That I’ll Never SeeSay These Wadawurrung Fields Belong Now To MeThere’s Space For My Children, They Will Call It Their OwnBut Not Far Beneath The Surface This Isn’t My HomeChorusAnd The Fire Went Out In The Morning So EarlyWe Took Down The Slabhraidh To Take On The JourneyNo Smoke And No Singing Warmed The Air Around GreaulainnAs We Stepped On A Boat Bound For Melbourne
