She Waits By The Sliprails (The Bush Girl)

(album: The Outback Club - 1992)

So you rode from the range where your brothers select
Through the ghostly grey bush in the dawn
You rode slowly at first, lest her heart should suspect
That you were so glad to be gone

You had scarcely the courage to glance back at her
By the homestead receding from view
And you breathed with relief as you rounded the spur
For the world was a wide world to you

Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset and rain
Fond heart that is evermore true
Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain
She'll wait by the sliprails for you

Well the world is a new and a wide one to you
But the world to your sweetheart is shut
For a change never comes to the lonely bush homes
Of the stockyard, the scrub, and the hut

Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset and rain
Fond heart that is evermore true
Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain
She'll wait by the sliprails for you

Oh, Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset and rain
Fond heart that is evermore true
Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain
She'll wait by the sliprails for you

Yes she waits by the sliprails for you