We were both 18 the year that we met

I was slighty older but not by much

One look at you and I knew that was it

Amd your voice sounded like an angel above



One look at me and you thought I was odd

Wearing those clothes in that Kimberley heat

Blundstone boots, cowboy hat, flannelette

Amd a deim overcoat all the way down to my feet



When your sister asked me to join up with you

You nearly fainted with shock but you hid it well

“what the hell are you doing?”

you shouted when I left

and I was singing all the way back to my hotel



we headed off from Broom and trave..ed

through the Kimberley

Derby,Fitzroy, a night in Halls Creek

Wyndham, Kunnunrra, Darwin we stayed for a while

Then we hit the coast near Townsville on the other side

Christmas in Cairns didn’t have nowhere to go

Busking on the streets just to get feed

Being kept up all night by the lovers on the top bunk

At a seedy backpackers called “Rapture of the Deep”



Now plenty has happened since those early days

We’ve met a lot of people, been a lot of places

Many a night in friends and relitives beds

And God bless the lot of you that put us up and fed us

We’ve played to croweds of thousands, played to one or

Two played in festivals and pubs, loved and hated

What we do but looking back now I wouldb’t trade but

One of the memories we’ve made in the last eight

Years and though there was times we didn’t get along

I can honesty say I love the both of you



Now your living in Sydney in some dingy room

In a house full of strangers on Ramsgate avenue

Paying twice as much as what the damn things worth

Works in the daytime just to make it though

You got your arms to you elbows in the sink at some

Place cleaning pots and pans, cups and saucers,

Knives and forks and plates

It’s a far cry, from the life that we knew

Travelling around the country in a campervan

Playing song, singing with your sister and you

But it’s too late to go back there again