The Explorers

From a bulging colony
Constrained, to the Eastern side
Of mountains wide
Three men together                
Together set out
To cross that Great Divide
Determined they would discover 
What lay over, on the other side

Through valleys, a river course
The river course on foot and horse
By foot and horse
They failed to find the source
 
(Instrumental break)

Along the ridges
Rugged ridges not tried before
Along those ridges, rugged ridges
They might find what lay before
They blazed a trail
Through scrub and shale
Cut a path right through the brush
After the dew
That the horses might pass 

Backbreaking toil                                          
A few miles each day                                 
Every day
From ridge to ridge that way

Then waking each morning
They would gaze
Through a mountain haze
The ‘blue’ mountain haze

Always every day a mountain haze
Which way was through
Nobody knew the mountain range
Which way was through

Finally … perseverance paid
From a final mountain ridge
Their destination laid
Vast tracts of land
For which they had prayed.

Rodd Sherwin
to a composition by
Jeremy Wiliams