Brown Paddocks Of Macarthur

Brown paddocks of Macarthur are looking dry and bare With scarce enough of grass around for to fatten a hare The sheep are looking scrawny the cattle looking thin As they stand munching old and dry hay from steel circular hay bin. Old paddocks of Macarthur are looking bare and brown And little much is happening in Macarthur Country Town The white backed magpie piping on sunlit wattle tree Though it is not his time of year to sing for territory. In the Township of Macarthur the roadside drains are dry And there is not any sign of rain in the sultry Autumn sky It is a very sweathy day of 34 degrees Of very high humidity with hardly any breeze Brown paddocks of Macarthur are looking dry today And cattle around the feed bins are munching old dry hay Another poor year for the farmers the financial pinch they feel But droughts brought on by climate change are Worldwide and sad to say for real.