The Maid of Australia

Oh as I walked down
by the Oxborough banks
Where the maids of Australia
do play their wild pranks

By a shady green bower,
I sat myself down
Where the birds sang so gayly
and chanting all round

In the forests of happy Australia,
in the forests of happy Australia,
Where the maidens are handsome and gay

Well, I had not been long
in that beautiful scene
Where the fields are delightful,
the trees ever green

When a pretty fair damsel
to me did appear
To the banks of the river
she quickly drew near

She's a native of happy Australia,
she's a native of happy Australia,
Where the maidens are handsome and gay

Well, She took off her clothes
and before me she stood,
Just as naked as Venus,
that came from the flood,

She looked me in the face
and, smiling, said she,
"Oh this is the road
that nature gave me."

On the day I was born in Australia,
on the day I was born in Australia,
Where the maidens are handsome and gay

And she jumped in the water,
without fear or dread
And her beautiful limbs
she exceedingly spread

And her hair hung in ringlets
and the colour was black
She cried, "Sir, can you see...
how I swim on my back

In the streams of my native Australia,
in the streams of my native Australia,
Where the maidens are handsome and gay

But, being tired of swimming,
she came to the brink
Oh, assist me kind sir,
for I'm sure I shall sink.

So, like lightning, I flew -
took her fast by the hand
But, my foot - it did slip
and we fell to the sand

And I entered the bush lf Australia,
and I entered the bush of Australia
Where the maidens are handsome and gay

So we sported together
in the highest of glee
In the finest Australia
we ever did see

To my head to her beautiful breast
was inclined
And the sun, in the west,
all its glories resigned

And I left this fair maid of Australia,
and I left this fair maid of Australia
Just as the moon did shine

Just as the moon did shine