Tallarook

(album: The Outback Club - 1992)

I walked through the gate, it creaked and then fell down
The sheep got in and chewed the vege garden to the ground
The fly screen's got a hole where I took a pot shot at a roo
And a squadron of bush blowies just keeps on flying through

Things are crook in Tallarook
And I've heard Cooma can be drear
Things may be blue in Bookaloo
But they couldn't be as bad as being here

While burning off, the barn caught fire and disappeared in smoke
The missus, well she's taken off with some other bloke
Well she just took up and left me and if that's not bad enough
The dog got up and left us, well you might say that times are tough

Things are crook in Tallarook
And I've heard Cooma can be drear
Things may be blue in Bookaloo
But they couldn't be as bad as being here

The overdraft is through the roof, so's the flaming rain
All my dreams go up in smoke and hope goes down the drain
The fences have all fallen down and the stock's just wandered out
And they tell me when this flood subsides there's gonna be another drought

Yeah, things are crook in Tallarook
And I've heard Cooma can be drear
Things may be blue in Bookaloo
But they couldn't be as bad as being here

Yeah, things are crook in Tallarook
And I've heard Cooma can be drear
Sometimes things may be blue in Bookaloo
But they couldn't be as bad as being here