In Mt Alexander Shire

The bare and brown paddocks of moisture have long been sucked dry And the sun glowing bright in the blue morning sky For central Victoria another warm day And rain that is needed does seem far away From the Shire of Mt Alexander that is known far and wide For it's gold mining past in the dry countryside The miners long deceased but signs of their work to be found In the unfilled holes they made in the dry and hard ground To central Victoria men even came from China for to mine for gold Though few miners grew wealthy from their labors as has often been told Of their greed for Earth's riches many unfilled holes today And they do not need gold in the place where they now lay Welcome swallows above the bare paddocks in the sunny sky With the sun on their dark wings in pursuit of flying insects fly