Fifteen Kilometers From Warrnambool

Fifteen kilometers or more from Warrnambool's big coastal Town The paddocks by the Hopkins in Summer are brown An old land that has inspired story and rhyme That was very old even in the Dreamtime Australia's first people long before the first Europeans came For this ancient Country had a different name Where on warm Summer evenings they had their corroborees And out of the full sun danced in the shade of the trees Fifteen kilometers or more from the Town of Warrnambool The dark moorhens cry in the brown river pool Where the Hopkins does flow and will forever more On it's journey that ends at the Pacific shore Where natural beauty on all Seasons is to be seen In Winter and Spring the old paddocks look green But in the dry spells of Summer and Autumn they look bare and brown Fifteen kilometers or more from Warrnambool's big coastal Town.