‘Give me a man who’s a man among men

Who’ll stow his white collar and put down his pen

Who’ll blow down a mountain and build you a dam

Bigger and better than old Uncle Sam.

Sometimes it’s raining and sometimes it’s hail

Sometimes it blows up a blizzardy gale

Sometimes it’s fire and sometimes it’s flood

And sometimes you’re up to your eyeballs in mud.

Give me bulldozers and tractors and hoses

And diesels to ease all my troubles away

With the help of the Lord and of good Henry Ford

The Snowy will roll on her way.’

Extract from the song ‘Snowy River Roll’