The Yangery

Between Warrnambool City and Koroit's rural Town Old Yangery today is looking dry and brown Named after it's first people of the long ago Going back the decades two centuries or so Though the stories of their legends may be living on The Yangery people from the Moyne Shire long gone From where they hunted and lived and raised their families And had their social gatherings and corroborees Legend has it when the countryside now known as the Moyne Shire had more bushes and trees The Yangery tribe gave shelter to shipwrecked Portugese And that some of their women fell in love with the foreigners and gave birth to people of a mixed race Where cultures do meet changes always take place That time brings with it changes only true to say Far less bushes and trees in Yangery today In the Moyne Shire the tribe known as Yangery never to be seen again And only their legends nowadays does remain Above the sunlit brown paddocks in the blue and gray sky In pursuit of flying insects the dark swallows fly Where the Yangery lived many decades ago That time with it brings changes happens to be so.