The Old Hopkins

It has inspired the writers of story and rhyme The dark Hopkins River is so old in time It had been flowing for thousands of years before the first people to the State now known as Victoria came As a very old waterway that did not have a name Australia's first people going back the centuries On very warm evenings in Summer close to forty degrees By the banks of the river in the shade of the trees They told stories and sang and danced their corroborees Since then many Seasons have come and have gone But the old dark waterway towards the blue hole crawls on As it nears the Pacific to a huge waterway it does grow As by the City of Warrnambool it flows dark, deep and slow The old Hopkins River so very old in time That has inspired the writers of story and rhyme.