Rolf Harris - Letter To Narelle lyrics

She sits down by the light of the caressing lantern And wearily brushes the moths from the gla** Takes her pen in her hand and she starts on a letter To her girlfriend Narelle, back at home from the past They had grown up as one, they were schoolgirls together Til time and the pull of her heart changed her life Took her far far away from the friends of the city To this bare backlogged kingdom she now rules as a wife And she writes: Dear Narelle, it's been almost three years now Since I shopped in the city or took him to a show But when my man's back, and the bank gives us credit He's promised me this time we'll definitely go But oh! Dear Narelle, I wish you could be here As he rides through the gate when the rains finally fall With his old hat thrown back and his eyes warm and smiling These long months on my own just won't matter at all And she writes how she misses the kids, off at school now But she knows that it's better that they're both away And she hopes the supply truck comes in with some stores soon Cos there's just one or two things she ran out of today And she writes: Dear Narelle, the drought's getting worse now And I don't know if we're gonna make it this time And I've been on my own since my man hit a dry river But apart from these dust storms... everything's been fine But oh! Dear Narelle, I wish you could be here When the rain finally falls, and the country turns green And the wind moves the hills in an ocean of gra**es And the gulleys sing loud with the song of the stream And oh! Dear Narelle, you should be here at sundown When the easterly breeze hunts the heat from the day And the stars shine like diamonds in a sky of black velvet And I'm glad that my city life's far far away And the moon shines as softly like a far away bushfire And I'm glad that my city life's far far away