Scots of the riverina chords by Lee Kernaghan
Verse 1
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The boy
ran away to the city
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From his home at Christmastime
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They were Scots of the Riverina
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And to run from home was a crime
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The old man burned his letters
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The first and last he burned
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And he scratched his name
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from the Bible
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When his old wife's back was turned
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A year went past and another
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And the fruit went down the line
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They heard the boy and he whistled,
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but the old man made no sound
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His name must never be mentioned
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on the farm by Gandhigan
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They were Scots of the Riverina,
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With ever the Kirk hard line.
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The boy came home on his final,
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And the township's bonfire burned.
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His mother's arms were about him,
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but the old man's back was turned
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The daughters begged for pardon,
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till the old man raised his hand
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I scarred off the riverina,
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it was hard to understand
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The boy
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was killed in Flanders
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Where the bravest heroes died
There were tears at the
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Graham homestead
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And grief in Gandhigar
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But the old man plowed at daybreak
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And the old man plowed till the murk
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There were furrows of
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pain in the orchard
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While his house folk went
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to the kirk
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The hurricane lamp in the rafters
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dimly and dimly burned
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And the old man died at the table
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When his old wife's
back was turned
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Face down on his bare arms folded
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He sank with wild grey hair
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Outspread o 'er the open Bible
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And a name rewritten there
Scots of the riverina
Lee kernaghan
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