He’s A Big Man

for Wally Bates © Copyright Greg Champion he’s a big man he comes from another time and place he’s had many trades he told me plasterer and labourer and more 2. he’s a big man a laugh that comes from deep within a strong frame built on friendliness...

I Love You Anyway

© Copyright Greg Champion I won’t mind if your hair turns grey if the bloom of youth ever fades away I’m close to you as night to day and I love you anyway 2 I won’t mind if we fuss or fight to sort things out and get things right sometimes these...

Waukaringa

© Copyright Greg Champion it’s been a hard hot summer boys it was tough and it was tiring there were times when it was too hot to go on but we stuck it out, and now the job is done CH. So we’ll pass the jug around And we’ll toast our health together...

Back This Way Again

© Copyright Greg Champion there’s a boat waiting down there on the river waiting on that river wide and slow bound tomorrow for the Southern Ocean on her long lazy journey she will go and in the morning there’ll be mist upon the water and it’ll clear...

Banks Of The Condamine

Trad. Adapted from several versions by Greg Champion “Oh hark! The dogs are barking, I can no longer stay The men have all gone mustering, I heard the publican say And I must be off in the morning, love, before the sun does shine To meet the contract shearers on...

Too Many Bridges

© Greg Champion I was a waiter on an interstate train as a 22-year-old fool I was playin’ in an outback hotel band when I was just out of school I picked strawberries in the hills and loaded trucks to raise some dough and every job I left I was a little afraid...