Well,
over the years of my lifetime
I've covered the breadth of this land
From the shores of the shimmering oceans
To deserts of saltbush and sand
And people will often ask me
Isn't it time for a rest?
Well,
the road is my home and it's all that I've known
And I'm still here to give it my best
Well, I started out as a young man
With just a guitar and a song
I sang of the bush and its hardships
The home of the brave and the strong And
I played in the halls and the sideshows
I played to the folk way out west For
the road is my home and it's all that
I've known And I'm still here to give it my best
My Karen
Well,
time brought a woman to love me
I soon had a family in tow
We travelled the plains of the outback A travelling musical show
And we weathered the hard and the lean
times Together as onward we pressed
For the road is my home and it's all that I've known
And I'm still here to give it my best
So give me the flies and the red dust Give me the tall waving grain
Give me the shimmering heat haze I'll face it all gladly again
I'll sing my old songs and say thank you
To all who have made me their guest
For the road is my home and it's all that I've known
And I'm still here to give it my best Yes,
the road is my home and it's all that
I've known And I'm still here to give it my best
Thank you very much indeed.
We'd like to call on a couple of people
now that have been singing a long time.
They've been singing professionally long before I started,
so that's a hell of a long time.
That really dates them, doesn't it?
But anyway,
they've had radio programs and they've
been travelling all around the country
all their lives,
so they've developed a very special type of yodelling.
It's called harmony yodelling.
So let's give a big hand now to the great
talents of the fabulous McKean Sisters.
Here they are right now.