Things I See Around Me - Slim Dusty

I sing abaout the things I see around me

The beauty of Australia that surrounds me

I sing in songs about this sunburnt land

Especially for the ones who understand

I sing about the people that I know

and a song about the places where I go

When I sing about the beauty that astounds me

Oh I just sing about the things I see around me

I sing about a ringer they called Trumby

How the man from Snowy River wheeled the brumby

I sing of towns a thousand miles from here

And the poor pub that ran right out of beer

I sing about the folks that battled drought

In that hard dry country further out

When I sing about their courage that astounds me

I just singing about the folk I see around me

I sing about the old retired drover

And the transport men whose trucking days are over

I sing about the Golden Mile

And the people who are living anthill style

I sing about the hardships and the strife

The battling man must suffer in this life

When I tell you all their stories that astoune you

I just talk about the folk you see around you

I sing abaout the things I see around me

The beauty of Australia that surrounds me

I sing in songs about this sunburnt land

Especially for the ones who understand

I sing about the people that I know

and a song about the places where I go

When I sing about the beauty that astounds me

Oh I just sing about the things I see around me