The Wannon Will Flow On Poem by Francis Duggan

In fancy i can hear the dark pale eyed crow
Cawing on a gum tree near where old Wannon flow
To the Pacific ocean in kilometers far away
In the brown and bare paddocks by night and by day
A waterway old in the age of the Dinosaurs and the Dreamtime
The Wannon has inspired the creators of story and rhyme
In those old brown paddocks in time going back centuries
Australia's first people had their corroborees
But in time as we know few things ever does last
And corroborees by the Wannon are of the long gone past
For centuries before recorded history the waterways have flowed to the ocean shore
And the Wannon to the Pacific will flow forever more
And in the centuries to come as in centuries long gone
In the old brown country the Wannon will flow on.