[Intro]
[Chorus]
Bare legged Kate with your natural grace
And your big sad eyes and your Irish face
A poor bush girl when the summer is high
In the bitter days of Gundagai
[Verse]
Bare legged Kate why do you run
Down to the creek in the setting sun?
Go away where the eyes of the world can t see
But you can t run away from your poverty
[Verse]
Bare legged Kate, why do you weep
When the men drove by with the travelling sheep?
Does the sight of the drover make you sad
When you think of the father you never had?
[Chorus]
Bare legged Kate with your natural grace
And your big sad eyes and your Irish face
A poor bush girl when the summer is high
In the bitter days of Gundagai
[Verse]
Oh, it s well you know, there s gold in the hills
But you know that the cyanide process kills
Strangles the miners and cuts them down
In their mean little homes in Timber Town
[Verse]
And it s well you know, when the floods come down
It s the poor by the river are the first to drown
Where the wild Murrumbidgee goes roaring by
Through the haunted hills of Gundagai
[Chorus]
Bare legged Kate with your natural grace
And your big sad eyes and your Irish face
A poor bush girl when the winter is nigh
In the barren hills of Gundagai