Mallow Bill

He fished in the Blackwater River when his hair was chestnut brown Back in the early fifties Bill from Mallow Town In nineteen fifty five he arrived by ship in the Port of Melbourne when he was twenty three Far south of his old Hometown a new land for to see In Carlton in Melbourne he met the love of his life But love can have it's heartaches she was not to be his wife For she died in a motoring accident on what was his life's saddest day That life has many an up and down is only true to say For years Bill lived in Geelong in Victoria where time became his foe In the pub he often talked of his younger years in Mallow years ago Last year he died in his early eighties his bones in Geelong lay And those who knew him say of him a gentleman in every way To everyone who knew him he was known as Mallow Bill And a heart that beat with kindness is now forever still.