When The Rain Tumbles Down In July Cifras

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Let me wander north to the homestead,
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Way out further on there to roam,
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By a gully in flood let me linger,
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When the summery sunshine has flown.
 
[Verse 2]
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Where the logs tangle up on the creek bed,
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And clouds veil the old northern sky,
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And the cattle move back from the lowlands,
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When the rain tumbles down in July.
 
[Verse 3]
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The settlers with sad hearts are watching,
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The rise of the stream from the dawn,
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Their best crops are always in flood reach,
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If it rises much more they'll be gone.
 
[Verse ]
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The cattle string out along the fences,
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The wind from the south races by,
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And the limbs from the old gums are fallin',
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When the rain tumbles down in July.
 
[Verse 4]
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The sleeping gums on the hillside,
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Awaken to herds straying by,
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From the flats where the fences have vanished,
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As the storm clouds gather on high.
 
[Verse 5]
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The wheels of the wagons stop turning,
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The stock horse is turned out to stray,
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The old station dogs are a dozin',
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On the husks in the barn through the day.
 
[Verse 6]
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The drover draws rein by the river,
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It's years since he's seen it so high,
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Yes and that's just a story of homeward,
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When the rain tumbles down in July.
 
[Outro]
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