Australia Home Medley: Call Of The Bellbird / Billy Of Tea / Mrs Swaggie Joe / I Still Call Australia Home

I've been a wayward wanderer, but found I like to rest
In a home up in the mountain, the place I love the best.
I'd wander to the City in search of gayer times
But now I am returning to my home up in the pines.

So ring your bell, bellbird, you're calling me back home
To my home up in the mountains no more will I roam
For there will be contentment, and my heart will be at ease
Where the bellbird's call at evening floats on the mountain breeze.

So ring your bell, bellbird, you're calling me back home
To my home up in the mountains no more will I roam
For there will be contentment, and my heart will be at ease
Where the bellbird's call at evening floats on the mountain breeze.

Ring ting-a-ring-a ring ting-a-ring-a bellbird
Ring ting-a-ring-a call me back home
Ring ting-a-ring-a ring ting-a-ring-a bellbird
Ring ting-a-ring-a call me back home
Ring ting-a-ring-a call me back home

You make talk of your whiskey
Your rum or your beer
There's something much better that's waiting us here
It sits by the fire beneath the gum-tree
Blackened and boiled and billy of tea

So fill up your tumblers high as you can
Don't you dare tell me it's not the best plan
You can let all your beer and your spirits run free
I'll stick to my darling old billy of tea

Then the fire I make and the water I get,
And corned beef and damper in order I set,
But I don't touch the grub, though so hungry I be -
I wait till I've brewed up a billy of tea

So fill up your tumblers high as you can
Don't you dare tell me it's not the best plan
You can let all your beer and your spirits go free
I'll stick to my darling old billy of tea

Here's a tale of a girl named matilda
A story, sad but true
Who fell in love with a swaggie
And the swagman loved her too

Not swaggie joe the swaggie
Had only his love to give
And he vowed when he married matilda
That he'd love her as long as he lived

Oh matilda went a walking
A-walking she did go
Yes matilda went a walking
As mrs swaggie joe

But the years they did not tally
And the story we are told
Is of the deep affection
As the swaggie joes grew old

And then one night they settled
Beside a river bed
Old joe woke up next morning
And found matilda dead

He buried there his loved one
Beneath an old gum tree
Then softly he said to his ?
My matilda now you'll be

And soon the other swaggies
Who walked the wallabies
Why they called their swags matilda
In matilda's memory

Oh matilda's still a-walkin
A walkin she still goes
Yes matilda's still a-walkin
With a thousand swaggie joes

I've been to cities
That never close down
From new york to rio
And old london town
But no matter how far
Or how wide I roam
I still call Australia home

I'm always travelling
I love being free
So I keep leaving
The sun and the sea
But my heart lies waiting over the foam
I still call Australia home

All the sons and daughters
Spinning round the world
Away from their families and friends
But as this world gets older
And colder, you know where your journey ends

Someday we'll all be together once more
When all the ships come back to the shore
You know I realise something
I've always known
I still australia
Still call australia
Still call australia home