The Man From Fishguard

The man from Fishguard is happy in Australia he has lived in Gippsland since nineteen eighty three
Far from his hometown the renowned Welsh harbor in the far north by the cold Irish sea
A long distance truck driver he drives through the big country from north to south and east and west and up and down
Each week he travels thousands of kilometres to the big cities through many a bush town.

With an Aussie wife and two Primary going school children a boy of eleven and a girl of eight
He leaves home just after five on monday morning and on friday evening he returns late
Just two days a week with his wife and children and on monday morning on the road again
The long distance truckie's job one might say never easy he drives the highways in sun shine, hail or rain.

The man from Fishguard has just turned forty and he makes his living far from his home shore
And he has driven trucks around Australia for seventeen years now or even more
In eighty seven he returned to Fishguard when the hawthorns wore their white blooms of the May
But he did not enjoy the Welsh coastal weather on his four week holiday it did rain every day.

The man from Fishguard has not lost his accent that bit of Wales is with him till he die
He works hard and has a few drinks at the weekend and his travels through Australia he enjoy
He is in Australia till the reaper claims him and his old home town from here seems far away
But he will always be a Fishguard fellow and very much a Welsh man he will stay.