An Old Land

Bordered by barbed wire fences and stone ditches paddocks stony and brown Off of the road out of Colac on towards Camperdown A Land that was old in the dinosaur time The source of many song and story and rhyme. Long before the dark people from further north came This was an old Country one without a name They hunted and fished and had their corroborees In the warm Summer days in the shade of the trees. Where men never discovered gold, silver or oil And too hard for the plough the stony brown soil Brown paddocks much further than the eyes can see Through Terang on towards Warrnambool by the sea. Long before the birth of the first kangaroo Koala, wombat, emu, kookaburra or cockatoo Or long before the birth of gum or wattle tree This was an old Land with an old history.