Menindee - Neil Murray
Last drinks boys at menindee
In the year of 1860
After eleven drunken weeks
It's time to take your leave
And be first across the
Country to the gulf
So drink your drinks
And drink 'em slow
'Cause soon you'll all be gone
As part of a team of a
Great explorin' dream
Let's hope your leaders
Will know where to go
Oh mr burke do I really have to go
You see I've got this
Awful feelin' in my bones
I'm afraid that I won't
See my home again
And I dreamt the dingoes
Were tearing off my clothes
Oh yakayi yakayi
Yakayi yakayi yakayi
Oh worry worry worry worry me
I'd much rather stay
In the shade at menindee
Where the old darlin' river flows
I'll give this much to burke
He was a man of nerve
But he couldn't pick
A bushman from a cove
To give spell binder wright
A job just on sight
Was askin' for trouble
From the word go
So it's away away we go
Away up north out in
The great unknown
Well who's idea was it
To walk across the country
I say leave the bloody
Country to the crows
Oh yakayi yakayi
Yakayi yakayi yakayi
Oh worry worry worry worry me
I'd much rather stay
In the shade at menindee
Where the old darlin' river flows
Oh in the shade of
The pub at menindee
Where the beer is cold cold cold
Oh yakayi yakayi
Yakayi yakayi yakayi
After four months of
Toil and trouble
From the gulf to the
Cooper we return
Only to find they'd
Left nine hours befor
And not a soul to help
Us in our bind
Oh mr burke where did
All the black fellas go
Mr burke how we gonna
Make it on our own
I'd give everything on this day
To be four hundred miles away
With a cold beer sloshin' in my mouth
Oh yakayi yakayi
Yakayi yakayi yakayi
Oh worry worry worry worry me
I'd much rather stay in
The shade at menindee
Where the old darlin' river flows
Oh in the shade of the
Pub at menindee
Where the beer is cold cold cold
Oh in the shade of the
Pub at menindee
Where the old darlin' river flows
