I was born up in the mountains out where the snakes grow legs Where the wallabies all speak English and the kookaburras lay square eggs I shaved my beard and whiskers off at the ripe old age of two And then I straightened out my dad and drank his best home brew
Oh I'm a truthful fella I was born in Broken Hill I've never told a falsehood and you bet I never will
Now once when I was a flyer and in my aeroplane I flew out west to Birdsville then I started back again When I got half way over the blasted motor balked So I left the jolly thing stuck up there and I just got out and walked
Oh I'm a truthful fella I was born in Broken Hill I've never told a falsehood and you bet I never will
Now once when I was fishing up north in Kakadu By crocodiles I was captured and those scalies ate my crew But I downed a bottle of OP rum that really is good stuff Then the crocodiles all swam away because I looked to tough
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Once more when I was fishing out on the ocean blue I had a prawn upon my line he was such a beauty too But a whale came up and grabbed the bait and I said now here’s a show And I would have got that whale you see but the bloody old prawn let go
Oh I'm a truthful fella I was born in Broken Hill I've never told a falsehood and you bet I never will
Oh I was raised up in the mountains out where the snakes grow legs Where the wallabies all speak English and the kookaburras lay square eggs And if you don't believe me you can ask my uncle peach He drove a herd of cattle once to Tassie round the beach yeah
Oh I'm a truthful fella I was born in Broken Hill I've never told a falsehood and you bet I never will