Only The Memories Now Does Remain

Their sort often honoured in story and song Those men who worked for Cunningham and Kelleher on the pipeline in Buninyong Back in the late eighties a long time ago Since then time on them has become their foe There are far easier ways of earning one's pay Than laying heavy pipes every working day But they were fit and strong and work hardened men And physically quite able for hard work back then But time on all things as is said has it's way Some of the Buninyong pipeline workers among the deceased now lay And those living now are showing time's decay And clearly have known of a far better day They worked hard and drunk hard and in the Buninyong Crown Hotel Many stories and yarns they had of to tell Many of the young men of the nineteen eighties are grandparents today Time does not stand still and things as they were does not stay Since then so many years have come and have gone But life as ever as usual goes on And only the memories now does remain Of what used to be but will not be again.