High Country

Lee Kernaghan 1992

This song provided an apt title for our Kosciuzko trail ride which I wrote about in ‘A High Country Ride’. Though strictly speaking set in the Victorian High Country, it captures the essence of the Australian mountains and why we love them. He even has a similar liking for the rough mountain shacks!

Dating back to 1992, it is found on the album. The Outback Club.  Lee Kernaghan is a well known Australian country singer and his music brilliantly evokes the outback way of life and the character of its people.

 

 

 

Honey pack your bags, grab your old blue jeans

We’re gonna go fishin’ in a mountain stream

Well I know a little shack way up in the hills

Twenty five miles from Harrietville

In the high country

 

Honey you should see all the stars up there

They shine so bright through the cold night air

I’m gonna build you a fire that’ll burn real hot

And I’ll stay with you at the old camp hut

In the high country

 

I’ve got my four-wheel drive and I’m ready to roll

I wanna go flying’ up an old dirt road

Up in the hills where the brumbies roam

This land must be surely be gods own

In the high country, in the high country

 

In the drought of 1882

The Maddisons brought the cattle through

From Mountain Creek to the Staircase Spur

We’ll follow the tracks where they pushed the herd

In the high country

 

High country that’s where I wanna be

Walkin’ with you by a mountain stream

High country that’s where I wanna go

Got my bags packed, I’m ready to roll

 

I’ve got my four-wheel drive and I’m ready to roll

I wanna go flying’ up an old dirt road

Up in the hills where the brumbies roam

This land must be surely be gods own

In the high country, in the high country

I’m headin’ for the hi – gh country

Headin’ for the hi – gh country

Headin’ for the high country

That’s where I wanna go, High country …..