Brown Paddocks Of Macarthur

Brown paddocks of Macarthur are looking dry and bare
With scarce enough of grass around for to fatten a hare
The sheep are looking scrawny the cattle looking thin
As they stand munching old and dry hay from steel circular hay bin.

Old paddocks of Macarthur are looking bare and brown
And little much is happening in Macarthur Country Town
The white backed magpie piping on sunlit wattle tree
Though it is not his time of year to sing for territory.

In the Township of Macarthur the roadside drains are dry
And there is not any sign of rain in the sultry Autumn sky
It is a very sweaty day of 34 degrees
Of very high humidity with hardly any breeze

Brown paddocks of Macarthur are looking dry today
And cattle around the feed bins are munching old dry hay
Another poor year for the farmers the financial pinch they feel
But droughts brought on by climate change are Worldwide and sad to say for real.