This Evening The Farmer Is Happy

The corellas on the tall gums are calling as darkness is cloaking the sky The evening is calm though 'tis raining and we need rain the ground is so dry This evening the farmer is happy his water tanks filling in the rain Nice to hear the spluttering of rain water down the guttering to the storm water drain Yes the farmer with the rain is happy with the warmer days of Summer ahead The long spells of droughts and of bushfires of such things he does live in dread In these times of climate change and global warming we do get some weather extremes For our polluting of our natural environment our price to pay it will be huge it seems With farm dams and smaller waterways drying out less water birds for to be seen The countryside dry and brown looking as brown as it ever has been The rain has never been more welcome the happy farmer has cause to smile In the Winter and Spring little rainfall we have not seen heavy rain for some-while The sound of the rain on the galvanize roofs is a pleasant sound for to hear And the farmer he is looking happier at the end for him of a hard year.