A Warm Summer's Day

The sun it grows warmer as the temperatures rise And the air it is full of the buzzing of flies The creek it is empty the roadside drain is bone dry And in the distance the smoke of the bush fire billows to the sky, The paddocks brown and bare for miles and miles around And the sun has soaked every dropp of moisture from the ground The cattle are sheltering in the shade of the trees On a warm day in January with just a faint breeze A top of 35 degrees the weather forecaster says so And on the roadside fence a lone pale eyed crow Is cawing in the warm sunshine of a warm day And butterflies with brown spots on their wings of gray In the sunlit garden from flower to flower fly And not a rain cloud in the blue Summer sky.