Burke & Wills
Album: Paul Finnerty's Jazz Beanz
By: Paul Finnerty's Jazz Beanz
By: Paul Finnerty's Jazz Beanz
Duration
3:17
Genres
Description
tune about a couple of early Australian explorers
Lyrics
Burke & Wills Burke and Wills eighteen sixty Did set out with nineteen men To the north two thousand miles To end up at cooper creek Seven men lost their lives In the quest to see the gulf Burke and Wills took John King and Charles Grey Set off for the gulf so far away Through the hot desert they were low on food Summer heat bore down on them there was no shade Finely they do get so near the gulf on the banks of the flinders estuary Burke and Wills saw the coast just three miles away Turning back for cooper creek Long long treck not much to eat In base camp they had to go On a tree there’s food below Here they died cept for King Four brave men who saw the gulf.
