Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Reedy River, artist - Gary Shearston. Date of issue: 01.02.2009
Song language: English
Reedy River |
| Ten miles down Reedy River one Sunday afternoon |
| I rode with Mary Campbell to that broad, bright lagoon |
| We left our horses grazing till shadows climbed the peak |
| And strolled beneath the sheoaks on the banks of Rocky Creek |
| Then home along the river, that night we rode a race |
| And the moonlight lent a glory to Mary Campbell’s face |
| I pleaded for our future all through that moonlight ride |
| Until our weary horses drew closer side by side |
| Ten miles from Ryan’s Crossing and five below the peak |
| I built a little homestead on the banks of Rocky Creek |
| I cleared the land and fenced it, and ploughed the rich, red loam |
| And my first crop was golden when I brought my Mary home |
| Now still down Reedy River, the grassy sheoaks sigh |
| The water-holes still mirror the pictures in the sky |
| The golden sand is drifting across the rocky bars |
| And over all for ever go sun and moon and stars |
| But of that hut I builded, there are no traces now |
| And many rains have levelled the furrows of my plough |
| The glad, bright days have vanished, for sombre branches wave |
| Their wattle blossom golden above my Mary’s grave |