Roving and Hoping (1938)
ON THE TRACK
(by 'Bill Bowing.")
Homeless, I am hiking around Australia Fair,
It isn't to my liking tramping here and there;
Camping 'neath the starlight near a billabong,
Luck is still a far light, yet I sing this song:
I am humping my swag along the highway,
The lonely highway without a friend;
But I've a tryst with Luck upon the highway,
At Rainbow's End.
Workless, I am needing honest work to do,
Strong, of decent breeding--just as good as you ;
Some a hobo name me as I pass
Truth cannot defame me, so I sing my song:
I am humping my swag along the highway,
The lonely highway, without a friend;
But I've a tryst with Luck upon the highway.
At Rainbow's End.
DALCASSIAN.
Charters Towers.
Notes
From the Queensland Newspaper the Townsville Daily Bulletin 11 May 1938 p. 12.
Songs like this one are much more common right through the Great Depression than has formerly been recognised, but a number of Australian Newspapers ensured their popularity in those tough times.
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