Sherbrooke Now Known As Yarra Ranges

Where the tall mountain ash on the high ground they seem to touch the very sky They now call it The Yarra Ranges though Sherbrooke it once was known by Places such as Sherbrooke, Belgrave and Kallista in fancy i often do see Those old wooded hills east of Melbourne will not fade from my memory. The whistle of Puffing Billy climbing up the tracks through Selby that memory with me does remain And the clouds of gray smoke billowing upwards from the engine exhaust pipe of the steam train And when the train has passed on it's way to Gembrook quietness returns to the higher ground And one can hear the white cockatoos squawking though their's is not such a pleasant sound. The wind blowing up from Ferntree Gully is soughing in the high country trees And the soft pipings of the crimson rosellas come floating to me in the breeze And on top of the hill at Olinda the currawongs call in the rain Of Sherbrooke now known as Yarra Ranges fond memories with me do remain. In Birdsland the bellbirds are singing their bell like notes I fancy I hear And though I now live far from Belgrave the hills to my thoughts ever near It is not very hard to imagine and it seems easy to visualize The raucous calls of the kookaburras on Terry's Hill before sunrise. Kalorama, Upwey and Tecoma and Menzies Creek i often recall South Belgrave, Sassafras, Monbulk and Upper Gully old places where gum trees grow tall Clematis, Ferny Creek and One Tree Hill in fancy i see every day And Emerald, Cockatoo and old Gembrook from me never seem far away.