The Golden Mile - V.Spy V.Spy

The whole town’s on the loop line

Two up rules the day

Pennies rising with the sun

Except for the day that mum gets her pay

The black man

And the white man

Are scratching their sunburnt face

While digging themselves

A hole in the ground

To find a better place

Everybody wants a holiday

With a full day’s pay

Some people need it

Some people steal it

Some people have it anyway

Children watch a father

Twelve hours full of sweat

Look in his eye and see the future

In the leather skin spinners bet

While the black man

And the white man

Are scratching their weary face

While they’re digging themselves

A hole in the ground

To find a better place

Everybody wants a holiday

With a full day’s pay

Some people need it

Some people steal it

Some people have it anyway

Can you see your children falling

Down Kalgoorlie’s hill

Can they see the future in the miner’s

Golden swill golden swill

Golden swill golden swill

It’s been a long time sweating

When you run the golden mile

The golden mile

Oh Kalgoorlie When’s it gonna rain

Oh Kalgoorlie When’s it gonna co