Long way home Lyrics

Raise the flag will raise our voices

Wash our bodies in the sea

Leave a buried message

Then will carve our names into a tree

All my life I've yearned this moment

Now I've finally found success

Three more cheers before we venture

Back into the emptiness

Cross the wetland once again

Over stony gibber plain

Through the desert through the pain

On the long way home

Camped last night at Roper River

Ate some damper, drank some tea

Had a brief encounter

With some friendly aborigine

Cross the wetland once again

Over stony to gibber plain

Through the desert through the pain

On the long way home

Day by day my strength is failing

Losing vision from my eyes

Forced to eat dried horse's meat

We're near the end of our supplies

Cross the wetland once again

Over stony gibber plain

Through the desert through the pain

On the long way home

Pain has paralyzed my body

Robbed my pride and left me lame

Carry me between two horses

Lying on an iron frame

Cross the wetland once again

Over stony gibber plain

Through the desert through the pain

On the long way home

Now the journey's all but over

Countless miles with naught to show

But there's peace of mind in knowing

Nevermore I'll need to go

Cross the wetland once again

Over stony gibber plain

Through the desert through the pain

On the long way home

On the long way home