作曲：

Way out in heartbreak corner

In Australia's far outback

The desert broods it's secrets

Along the birdsville track

A family came and perished

Oh what a tragic end

That fierce relentless desert

Has claimed so many men

I've learned how thirst

Can craze the mind in cruel

Heat outback

And I grieve for that poor

Family along the birdsville

Track

The great white ball of fire

Rode o'er the cloudless

Dome

And scorched all living creatures

Upon the sand and stone

Way out in heartbreak corner

They went and ne'er came

Back

And another story's buried there

Along the birdsville track

Then twilight fell with calmness

As silent as a tomb

And phantom streams reflected

The rising of the moon

The days and nights that followed

Brought panic and despair

And blinding sandstorms raged

As though to drown a mother's

Prayer

Then demons of the desert

Came to claim their tortured

Minds

And searching bushmen came

Too late and read the tragic

Signs

And now beside a coolabah

Where desert grasses wave

The brumby stallion leads

His mob to skirt the new

Made graves

Way out in heartbreak corner

They went and ne'er came

Back

May twilight bring them peace

At night along the birdsville

Track

The dingoes howl

So dismally the lonely curlews cry

As though in deepest

Mourning for those poor souls who

Died

Way out in heartbreak

Corner in Australia's far outback

The desert broods

It's secrets along the birdsville track

Oh the desert broods

It's secrets along the birdsville track