"The Long Hot Days" lyrics

 

The long hot days

 

The long hot days make you thirsty

but there’s backbreaking work to be done

and I’ll continue my toil

and pray for the rain to come

 

I can hear the soil screaming for water

but the clouds build up and then drift away

I’m not sure what keeps me going

maybe the hope that some luck might come my way

 

Well my land gets drier by the hour

as the red dust it stings my eyes

and the crows circle overhead waiting

but I was born here and I’ll stay here till I die

 

City people say we’re crazy

trying to make a living from this land

but it’s something that only a farmer can understand

 

So I’ll wander through these dying wheat fields

and look to the sky for  a sign

‘cause although she’s a tyrant

I love this land of mine

 

Chorus

 

Second Chorus

And the wild dogs howl in the moonlight

as I stay awake to the cockies piercing cry

and my trees will be uprooted by the wind storm

but I was born here and I’ll stay here till I die

 

The long hot days make you thirsty

but there’s backbreaking work to be done

and I’ll continue my toil

and pray for the rain to come