Happy+Valley

= Down at Dean, the hotel gleams = The taps are on til half past three Pool and darts and company The talks of spuds and football teams

Happy valley, spuds and hills and rain x 2

Five Ks on to Mollongghip The soil is moist and the air is crisp There’s Irish blood still in the earth But prices now are never what they were

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Down below the old schoolhouse Wombat forest stretches out Feeding fires against winter’s chill The old men’s axes are sharpened still

And the smell of wood smoke always takes me there Watching the weather stalk over the hills; see it twist and contort in the air Those gales blew my thoughts around

The cars roll in from the big smoke now Passing Irwin on his way to town Same old Holden since ‘63 In hat and tie for the groceries

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Church luncheons and the New Year’s roar Share the photos in the old green hall

The Pride of Erin and the Foxtrot gone
Computer disks blast out foreign songs

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But when the sun is floating in a summer sky The whole world hums with the dragon flies The rain is falling now in distant lands

As clothes fall off down at Dimond’s dam
Happy valley shining in the sun Happy Valley, life goes ever on Repeat