The Birdsville Track - Remaster 1996

[00:05.34] Way out in heartbreak corner in Australia's far outback
[00:11.91] The desert broods its secrets along the Birdsville track
[00:18.86] A family came and perished oh what a tragic end
[00:25.18] That fierce relentless desert has claimed so many men
[00:31.76] I've learned how thirst can craze the mind in cruel heat outback
[00:38.29] And I grieve for that poor family along the Birdsville track
[00:44.47] The great white ball of fire rode o'er the cloudless dome
[00:51.15] And scorched all living creatures upon the sand and stone
[00:57.78] Way out in heartbreak corner they went and ne'er came back
[01:03.14] And another story's buried there along the Birdsville track
[01:16.42] Then twilight fell with calmness as silent as a tomb
[01:24.22] And phantom streams reflected the rising of the moon
[01:31.08] The days and nights that followed brought panic and despair
[01:37.77] And blinding sandstorms raged as though to drown a mother's prayer
[01:44.34] Then demons of the desert came to claim their tortured minds
[01:51.16] And searching bushmen came too late and read the tragic signs
[01:57.65] And now beside a coolabah where desert grasses wave
[02:04.04] The brumby stallion leads his mob to skirt the new made graves
[02:10.60] Way out in heartbreak corner they went and ne'er came back
[02:15.96] May twilight bring them peace at night along the Birdsville track
[02:30.81] The dingoes howl so dismally the lonely curlews cry
[02:36.87] As though in deepest mourning for those poor souls who died
[02:43.44] Way out in heartbreak corner in Australia's far outback
[02:49.98] The desert broods its secrets along the Birdsville track
[02:56.51] Oh the desert broods its secrets along the Birdsville track.
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