Backwaters - Drenge

Sun’s so high, waterhole’s dry

I wanna give up, but I don’t know why

Sun’s so hot that meat cooks in the shade

Saw a lamb and it was choking on death

It’s mother kicked, and broken it’s neck

I never seen blood and milk mixed so divine

I never seen such beauty so malign

Brother said Bourbon never done me good

Neither did a face full of campfire soot

Them burning Alport coals sting like a bitch

I catch a lift on the last bus home

To the end of the line for the coppers I own

I get thrown off, hit on, beat up before I drown

In the murky backwaters I lay my body down

Fifty stars above my head, and

Thirteen scars run through my chest

Blue and red blood fuck up my veins

Blackened eyes, and a purple nose

I’ve got missing teeth, got a lot of those

Oh Marygold, you’ve never done me no harm

Oh Marygold, in debt to you

Don’t ever wanna say the things I’ve thought of you

Oh Marygold, I wrote you a love song