The One From North Queensland Poem by Francis Duggan

With a smile on her face as she drank a cold beer
She said 'tis warmer in Queensland than it is down here
So many days there of over thirty degrees
Though the evenings are cool with a freshening ocean breeze.

As brown as a ripe chestnut from years of sunshine
The one from North Queensland doesn't look fifty nine
With brown dye she makes sure she covers her gray
And her plastic surgeon from her keep age wrinkles away.

The one from North Queensland for her age looks great
Her only child last year he turned thirty eight
And he has a daughter who will soon be nineteen
Her grandma says she looks beautiful though her I've not seen.

She will be in Victoria till mid January
Her brother and his family she has come down to see
But she is counting the days till she goes north again
Where there is even warmth in the tropical rain.

In North Queensland she'll live till the day that she die
As the tropical climate she truly enjoy
She drank her cold beer with a smile on her face
As she talked of her love of a far warmer place.