Down By The Port River

Down by the Port River on a February day In the blue sunny sky just a few clouds of gray The silver gulls called in the fresh coastal air And a lovely young woman with blond shoulder length hair Was singing a song of Australia the Land of eucalypt trees With the lilt of joy in her brown eyes and her hair tossing in the breeze That blew up from the Pacific Ocean on a beautiful and bright Summer's day From the famous Town of Port Adelaide the sea is just a short drive away As I walked by the old Port River I heard the song of the pee wee And the silver billed magpie was piping on a wattle tree And I was just a passing stranger a fellow from a distant shore A long way from Port Adelaide and the beach at Semaphore But memories last a lifetime and the memory will remain Of the young beauty by the Port River when I visit the past again.