Put a Light In Every Country Window - Gary Shearston

Put a light in every country window

High-speed pumps where now the windmills stand

Get in and lay the cable so that one day we’ll be able

To have electricity all over this wide land

Miners tunnel to feed the fires at Wangi

While others scrape the brown coal at Yallourn

Turbine blades are yielding to the tumbling tons of Eildon

And the Snowy will be finished before long

Put a light in every country window

High-speed pumps where now the windmills stand

Get in and lay the cable so that one day we’ll be able

To have electricity all over this wide land

Little farms and giant outback stations

They all are mechanised today

For milking cows and shearing sheep to do it fast and do it cheap

Electrically is the modern way

Put a light in every country window

High-speed pumps where now the windmills stand

Get in and lay the cable so that one day we’ll be able

To have electricity all over this wide land

The old Coolgardie and the red-hot woodstove

They all have seen their day at last

For now the ice and fire that is coming on the wire

Has made them all relics of the past

Put a light in every country window

High-speed pumps where now the windmills stand

Get in and lay the cable so that one day we’ll be able

To have electricity all over this wide land