Gippsland Drought.

The farmers not too happy and the price of cattle down And the hills above Wonthaggi are looking dry and brown And the parched paddocks of Gippsland are crying out for rain But the forecast for the coming week is warm and dry again. In four months of warm weather just two hours of rainfall And I spoke to octogenarian and she can well recall Seventy five Gippsland summers when brown replace the green But hills above Wonthaggi the brownest she has seen. High above the sunlit paddocks the welcome swallows fly As forecasters of the weather they never seem to lie The bees and flies they feed on with rising temperatures high And far closer to Mother Earth whenever rain is nigh From drought or from long warm spells or call it what you may Those hills above Wonthaggi are looking brown today And the parched paddocks of Gippsland are crying out for rain But the forecast for the coming week is warm and dry again.