A THOUSAND MILES AWAY
(Air: “Ten Thousand Miles Away.”)
Hurrah for the Roma railway! Hurrah for Cobb and Co.,
And oh! for a good fat horse or two to carry me Westward
Ho—
To carry me Westward Ho! my boys, that’s where the cattle
stray
On the far Barcoo, where they eat nardoo, a thousand miles
away.
Chorus
Then give your horses rein across the open plain,
We’ll ship our meat both sound and sweet, nor care what
some folks say;
And frozen we’ll send home the cattle that now roam
On the far Barcoo and the Flinders too, a thousand miles
away.
Knee-deep in grass we’ve got to pass—for the truth I’m
bound to tell—
Where in three weeks the cattle get as fat as they can swell—
As fat as they can swell, my boys; a thousand pounds they
weigh,
On the far Barcoo, where they eat nardoo, a thousand miles
away.
Chorus: Then give your horses rein, &c.
No Yankee hide e’er grew outside such beef as we can freeze;
No Yankee pastures make such steers as we send o’er the
seas—
As we send o’er the seas, my boys, a thousand pounds they
weigh—
From the far Barcoo, where they eat nardoo, a thousand
miles away.
Chorus: Then give your horses rein, &c.