A Stranger In Wonthaggi

Where coalminers for safer working conditions and higher pay earned their place in renown Today he says he'd be a stranger in old Wonthaggi Town He left it forty five years ago when he was in his life's prime It's been thirty years since he was last back there and that's going back in time He says today I'd feel a stranger in Wonthaggi and not one there would know of me In the Town that is my Hometown just a short drive from the sea The wanderlust was in him when he was twenty three And some of the bigger World out there he yearned for to see A balding man in his late sixties his once brown hair silver gray And clearly he has known a far better day His oldest grandchild a young woman of twenty one Is the proud mother of a baby son And he is growing older with his ageing wife Far from where he began his great journey in life.