We were both 18 the year that we met
I was slighty older but not by much
One look at you and I knew that was it
Amd your voice sounded like an angel above
One look at me and you thought I was odd
Wearing those clothes in that Kimberley heat
Blundstone boots, cowboy hat, flannelette
Amd a deim overcoat all the way down to my feet
When your sister asked me to join up with you
You nearly fainted with shock but you hid it well
"what the hell are you doing?"
you shouted when I left
and I was singing all the way back to my hotel
we headed off from Broom and trave..ed
through the Kimberley
Derby,Fitzroy, a night in Halls Creek
Wyndham, Kunnunrra, Darwin we stayed for a while
Then we hit the coast near Townsville on the other side
Christmas in Cairns didn't have nowhere to go
Busking on the streets just to get feed
Being kept up all night by the lovers on the top bunk
At a seedy backpackers called "Rapture of the Deep"
Now plenty has happened since those early days
We've met a lot of people, been a lot of places
Many a night in friends and relitives beds
And God bless the lot of you that put us up and fed us
We've played to croweds of thousands, played to one or
Two played in festivals and pubs, loved and hated
What we do but looking back now I wouldb't trade but
One of the memories we've made in the last eight
Years and though there was times we didn't get along
I can honesty say I love the both of you
Now your living in Sydney in some dingy room
In a house full of strangers on Ramsgate avenue
Paying twice as much as what the damn things worth
Works in the daytime just to make it though
You got your arms to you elbows in the sink at some
Place cleaning pots and pans, cups and saucers,
Knives and forks and plates
It's a far cry, from the life that we knew
Travelling around the country in a campervan
Playing song, singing with your sister and you
But it's too late to go back there again
