Lake Hawea

A huge mass of inland water icy looking and sky blue By the high road stretching for miles something wonderful to view From Makarora to Wanake the mountain road winds up and down By the peaks through craggy valleys through a landscape green to brown. The great waters of Lake Hawea look more like an inland sea But this water is safe for drinking good to boil for soup or tea From the Alpine streams and rivers that flow from the higher ground Streams and rivers with their sources in the high peaks all around. Such great sights of natural beauty have inspired the Nature poet And i'm sure about old Lake Hawea poems and ballads have been wrote Song writer put pen to paper and write song for your guitar And sing your song about the great lake so it's beauty is known far. From Makarora to Wanake fifty k's or even more Mile on mile of wind blown water lapping on the shingled shore This a land of natural beauty and i'll retain the memory Of the great Lake of Hawea stretching like an inland sea.