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Jibadgee
Just Add Water
Just A Dream Away
Just Call Me Mate
Just My Way Of Life

JIBADGEE
© Shaza Leigh & Ben Jacobs
   

Lyrics Written by: Shaza Leigh & Ben Jacobs
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh
First Recorded by: Shaza Leigh
Released by: LBS Music Group
Album: Homeland - Shaza Leigh  (2016)


How many years have passed since your grandma named you Jibadgee

How many stories have you told throughout the Kimberley

How many minds were filled with the knowledge that you did impart

How many lives have you touched with your pure Australian heart

So much deeper is your love for our land Jibadgee

And what we call isolation's your treasured Kimberley

We see the Fitzroy flood and the western waters spread afar

You see that same old river rise you call him wudumbah

It's so good that we have known you Jibadgee

With a spirit that's as restless as the wind that's blowing free

With a mind and heart that ties you to your home the Kimberley

It's an everlasting friendship Jibadgee

We'd all be wiser if we'd lived your life Jibadgee

For the bush holds many secrets we could never see

That old tree we call a Boab you call Lulgaree

He supplies so much bush tucker known as Mungaree

We could share so many secrets now old Jibadgee

Who knows one day I may come back through your Kimberley

Maybe sit and talk a while if you remember me

I understand now all these years on what you shared with me

It's so good that we have known you Jibadgee

With a spirit that's as restless as the wind that's blowing free

With a mind and heart that ties you to your home the Kimberley

It's an everlasting friendship Jibadgee

What an everlasting friendship Jibadgee

JUST ADD WATER
© Shaza Leigh & 
   

Lyrics Written by: Shaza Leigh &
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh
First Recorded by: Shaza Leigh
Released by: LBS Music Group
Album: Homeland - Shaza Leigh  (2016)


As we drive around the station you will see it
at its utmost driest time

When you settle on a value be sure to keep
this sorry fact in mind

For the place is one big dust bowl in the end the breeders
even went to slaughter

But the soil is deep and fertile the ingredients all there
Just add water

Though it's hard to visualise it in a normal year there's grass
up past your knees

Try to picture these black floodplain with a sea of bluegrass
ripping in the breeze

And where black clay turns to red soil though it's bare today and
set like bricks in mortar

It's mostly chocked with baffle and lush crowfoot in the winter
Just add water

Just add water it'll rise up once again

Just add water our loss will be your gain

But the part I can't accept is how he'd leave behind
a loving wife and daughter

I feel my eyes start burning once again
Just add water

Though this ploughed up cultivation was sewn to wheat
before my husband died

With the planting window closing we gambled all in June
and planted dry

And though I've heard the drought is over not a drop fell outside Queenslands South East quarter

But the wheat will come up someday and at least be feed for something
Just add water

Just add water it'll rise up once again

Just add water our loss will be your gain

But the part I can't accept is how he'd leave behind
a loving wife and daughter

I feel my eyes start burning once again
Just add water

As we drive towards the coast to start again
Just add water

JUST CALL ME MATE
© Shaza Leigh & Manfred Vijars
   

Lyrics Written by: Manfred Vijars
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh
First Recorded by: Greg Bain
Released by: LBS Music Group
Album: Greg Bain