The Wanderers
From the singing of Carrie Milliner and the Bobbin
Family.
The Wanderers
(Words: James Hebblethwate - Tasmania 1899/Tune: C & J Roweth - 2000)
Arranged by Chloe and Jason Roweth.
A stirring poem Carrie remembers her brother Fred reciting. We couldn't resist writing a tune!
While I rode in the early dawn while stars were fading white,
I saw upon a grassy slope a campfire burning bright,
With tent behind and blaze before three loggers in a row,
Sang all together joyously pull up the stakes and go,
Pull up the stakes and go.
As I rode on by Eaglehawke the wide blue deep of air,
The wind among the glittering leaves, the flowers so sweet and fair,
The thunder of the rude salt waves, the creeks soft overflow,
All joined in chorus to the words pull up the stakes and go,
Pull up the stakes and go.
Nearby the tent on forest's skirt, by odour of the earth,
By sight and scent of morning smoke, by evening campfire mirth,
By deep sea calls and foaming greens, by new stars gleam and glow,
By summer trails in antique lands, pull up the stakes and go,
Pull up the stakes and go.
The world is wide and we are young and sounding marches beat,
And passion pipes the sweetest call in lanes and fields and streets,
To rouse the chorus brothers all when something has to show,
When death comes round and strikes our tent pull up the stakes and go,
Pull up the stakes and go.