I sit in peaceful harmony...
'neath a gum tree,tall and grand...
The wind plays gently with my hair..
as my toes play in the sand..
The trickling of the little stream...
as it flows across the rocks..
makes my mind drift off to dream..
As if time stands still or stops.
My mind goes to a time long passed..
To a place I'll not forget...
To him...the only man I have loved,
Of when he and I first met.
I was young and foolish..barely grown..
my heart still in my hands...
A man came to my parents place...
And I thought.."Oh what a man!"
He was working for my father..
on a station way out west...
Lots of men had come and gone...
but this one passed my test.
When he smiled his face became so bright..
His eyes shone dark and warm...
I felt when I was by his side..
I'd never come to harm.
He made me laugh and made me cry...
In the time that he was there...
I gave him my heart I don't know why..
And he gave me love and care.
We married when I turned 18,
Our love was strong and true...
We lived in perfect harmony...
In all we set out to do.
But one day this lovely man of mine,
Failed to come home to me...
I was so frightened and wondered
where could my Darling be?
But then the police came to my door,
To tell me they had found...
A crumpled car beside the road...
and my Darling on the ground.
My man was gone,he died that day,
And now I sit and dream...
Many years have passed me by...
But I will always think of him.
He is in my heart forever more...
No man can take his place...
I never go to sleep at night...
Without a vision of his face.
Darkness falls upon me...
as I sit beside this stream...
And my darling is in every thought...
and every single dream.
I wake myself and walk for home...
Along the lonely track...
And my man,he walks beside me..
He always walks me back..
I still smile each time I think of him...
I still cry when I miss him so..
And to me he never left my side...
And you know how I know?
I still feel his breath...can hear his heart,
At night when I am sleeping...
I dream his touch..we are never apart..
But I always wake up weeping.
