Sing Us Songs Of Sherbrooke Poem by Francis Duggan

We've sat listening all the evening to those oft sung melodies
And if you feel like singing mister sing us Songs of Sherbrooke please
Sing us Songs of Sherbrooke mister and let us hear the mountain breeze
Soughing softly in Kallista in those majestic gum trees.

Sing a song to us of Belgrave where the roads wind up and down
It's the home of 'Puffing Billy' and a historic old Town
Many come to ride on Billy some from many miles away
And they fall in love with Sherbrooke and return again one day.

Sing a song of Puffing Billy puffing puffing up by Selby hill
In the silence of mid morning and you hear him whistle shrill
As he labours up towards Emerald smoke reek upwards towards
the sky
Hear his young passengers laughing as the train goes chugging by.

Sing a song to us of Emerald, Clematis and Menzies Creek
Of the beauty of these places one might sing on for a week
Sing of the Patch and Olinda, Ferny Creek and Sassafras
Songs of Sherbrooke we'll remember from the memory they won't pass.

Sing us songs of Upper Gully and Tecoma and Upwey
Those old Towns by the high woodlands where the greeness all
year stay
Sing of South Belgrave and Kallista and Monbulk and Belgrave
Heights
Sing us songs of dear old Sherbrooke of beauty and scenic sights.

The State Government has changed the name of Sherbrooke Yarra Ranges now it's name
And the changes keep on happening what was once is not the same
But though the Government make a name change many people don't comply
And the name of Shire of Sherbrooke might yet take some time to die.

So sing us songs of Sherbrooke mister they are songs we love to hear
And sing to us of the high woodlands where the greeness stay all year
Where the currawongs and cockies call out on the higher trees
And the magpie's voice is carrying in the freshening mountain breeze.