Who Says Independents Don't Count

It once was the great Snowy river but for so called progress there's a price to pay
And farmers for crop irrigation have siphoned most of it's waters away
The river is down to a trickle just twenty five per cent of it's flow
And the old timers of the high country say they've never seen it so low.

But Craig Ingram an Independent politician his crusade for the Snowy did mount
And with Labor he traded his vote for water 'who says Independents don't count?'
A cutback in water wasteage and irrigation and the farmers with less water must do
And it's been said that a thirty per cent increase in flow in the Snowy if not in a year within two.

The voters of rural east Gippsland their confidence in Craig did show
And it's thanks to him amongst others that an increase in the volume of water will grow
In the river that inspired many stories that down through the high country flow
And the Snowy will flow on forever though it never has been as low.