MURRAY RIVER

By Snowy Mountain Rivers fed
they fill your banks, your river bed
and follow where your waters led
to Goolwa and the sea

From sparkling waters turned to brown
across the plains and past the towns
your mighty S bends wend around
a red gum canopy

Your surging waters fed the plains
by flooding land af-ter the rains
but now you're dammed and now you're drained
no longer running free

The red gums are condemned to die
your salty water's drifting by
while politicians cheat and lie
you're dying by degrees

Who can save the Murray now?
beset by waste from farm and plough
this is a thing we can't allow
we cannot let it be

There was a time the river ran
Un-harnessed by the will of man
it can again if we all plan
it's use in harmony

(c) January 2003 Written in Alice Springs, Northern Territory

Murray River, South Australia.

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