Susan

She grew tired of outback living tired of paddocks flat and brown And she resolved to move to Sydney live and work in the big Town The nearest village two miles south east a milk bar and pub with T.A.B. Surely there was more in Sydney more to do and more to see. Tired of life as farmer's daughter of working with sheep and steers She'd been helping out her dad and brother for what to her seemed many years She was twenty getting older time to make fresh start elsewhere Sydney beckoned and she answered she would go to live up there. Packed her suitcase one May morning hugged her mum and dad goodbye Mother sobbed keep in touch Susan hope you won't be letter shy Her brother Tom drove her to bus stop partings always seem so sad She would miss the farm, her brother and she would miss her mum and dad. Went to live in southern Sydney found a job in factory But she found it hard to settle she pined for her family With new found friends she went to night clubs she was in bad company And she was introduced to heroin and danger signs she could not see. She was befriended by drug pushers she had met up with the wrong type And lonely young woman from outback for the soul destroyers seemed ripe Lost her job and life's direction walked the streets for higher pay Lost her innocence and beauty and quickly went into decay. An outback mum and dad still waiting as the days and months go by For a letter from their daughter she's grown pen and paper shy What has happened to our Susan she's not written for three years Sobs her sad and worried mother as she wipes away her tears. She grew tired of outback living tired of paddocks flat and brown And she resolved to move to Sydney live and work in the big Town And by night she walks the streets of King's Cross she doesn't venture out by day And her innocence has left her and her beauty in decay