The Wannon Shearer

The passing of time on him beginning to show The bloke from the place where the dark Wannon flow Through the old brown country by night and by day To the distant ocean babbling on it's way A fifty five year old shearer his hair silver gray Time even wearies the best as some are known to say Yet at shearing with the top young shearers he does hold his own As The Wannon Shearer he is widely known Though he has made love to many women he's never had a wife And he does not know whether he has or has not fathered children in his travels in life He has shorn in many shearing sheds in the big countryside flat and brown And drunk in the pubs of many a bush town In the shearing sheds it is hard work in the warmth of Summer-time For a bloke from Victoria who is well past his prime Yet at shearing he is one who holds his own with the best Of the younger shearers of Queensland South West.