Menindee

Last drinks boys at menindee

In the year of 1860

After eleven drunken weeks

It's time to take your leave

And be first across the

Country to the gulf

So drink your drinks

And drink 'em slow

'Cause soon you'll all be gone

As part of a team of a

Great explorin' dream

Let's hope your leaders

Will know where to go

Oh mr burke do I really have to go

You see I've got this

Awful feelin' in my bones

I'm afraid that I won't

See my home again

And I dreamt the dingoes

Were tearing off my clothes

Oh yakayi yakayi

Yakayi yakayi yakayi

Oh worry worry worry worry me

I'd much rather stay

In the shade at menindee

Where the old darlin' river flows

I'll give this much to burke

He was a man of nerve

But he couldn't pick

A bushman from a cove

To give spell binder wright

A job just on sight

Was askin' for trouble

From the word go

So it's away away we go

Away up north out in

The great unknown

Well who's idea was it

To walk across the country

I say leave the bloody

Country to the crows

Oh yakayi yakayi

Yakayi yakayi yakayi

Oh worry worry worry worry me

I'd much rather stay

In the shade at menindee

Where the old darlin' river flows

Oh in the shade of

The pub at menindee

Where the beer is cold cold cold

Oh yakayi yakayi

Yakayi yakayi yakayi

After four months of

Toil and trouble

From the gulf to the

Cooper we return

Only to find they'd

Left nine hours befor

And not a soul to help

Us in our bind

Oh mr burke where did

All the black fellas go

Mr burke how we gonna

Make it on our own

I'd give everything on this day

To be four hundred miles away

With a cold beer sloshin' in my mouth

Oh yakayi yakayi

Yakayi yakayi yakayi

Oh worry worry worry worry me

I'd much rather stay in

The shade at menindee

Where the old darlin' river flows

Oh in the shade of the

Pub at menindee

Where the beer is cold cold cold

Oh in the shade of the

Pub at menindee

Where the old darlin' river flows