SALTBUSH ON THE BREEZE
© Shaza Leigh, K&M Dixon & Ashley Cook
   

Lyrics Written by: K&M Dixon
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh & Ashley Cook
First Recorded by: Ashley Cook
Released by: LBS Music Group
Album: For Country, The Flag & Me - Ashley Cook (2023)

There’ll always be saltbush on the breeze

Riding the west wind, Luring me with ease

Wherever I camp, In my dreams

There’ll always be saltbush on the breeze

The saltbush is reaching, almost to my stirrups

I can smell beefwoods, tonight in my dreams

I can see campfires and hear stockmen singing

And I hear the sounds of the cattle, it seems

At times when the wind’s in the west and this city

Its sleeping and stilled is the rattle of trains

In place of concrete and the tar and tall buildings

I am feeding a mob on the wide saltbush plains

And I can, high in the sky just at dawning

A brown falcon wheeling, to start his new day

And I’II always see stockmen, all dusty and bearded

When the western-born breezes come, blowing my way

Where I have all things of a family with money

That mansion with carpets and paintings on the walls

I would sooner a saddle, and stars for a ceiling

I would swap for a song, when that western wind calls

SAYING GOODBYE
© Shaza Leigh
   

Lyrics Written by: Shaza Leigh
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh
First Recorded by: Shaza Leigh
Released by: LBS Music Group
Album: Reflections On Love - Shaza Leigh (1992)


It's just another day out my window

Memories racing through my mind

There's gonna be some changes come tomorrow

We've spent too long wasting time

You don't believe in what I stand for

I can't forgive you though I've tried

We'll never bridge the gap between us

That's why I'm saying goodbye

Saying goodbye

There's no love to lose don't look behind you

We made sure of that some months ago

You don't look at life the way that I do

The river of love no longer flows

You don't believe in what I stand for

I can't forgive you though I've tried

We'll never bridge the gap between us

That's why I'm saying goodbye

Saying goodbye

You've been as cold as ice all through the summer

Except when your tempers rising high

Nothing can bridge the gap between us

That's why I'm saying goodbye

That's why I'm saying goodbye

That's why I'm saying goodbye

Saying goodbye

SEASONS OF LOVE
© Shaza Leigh
   

Lyrics Written by: Shaza Leigh
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh
First Recorded by: Shaza Leigh
Released by: LBS Music Group
Album: Seasons - Shaza Leigh (2009)


Love can be likened to nature’s four seasons
Feelings may change for a number of reasons
Today is the start of the rest of our lives
And we’re sharing the seasons of love
The seasons of love

The first days of spring are so vibrant and new
All-consuming exciting enfolding you
a little confusing changing each day
some hearts risk losing their way
Then summers so warm love grows well in the light
But if hard times bring trouble love can take flight

Love can be likened to nature’s four seasons
Feelings may change for a number of reasons
Today is the start of the rest of our lives
And we’re sharing the seasons of love
The seasons of love

The love that is nurtured in autumns soft glow
Is one of respect as friendship does grow
as green leaves turn gold mixed with burgundy hues
there comes peace of mind on the path that we choose
but winter is coming with its chilling breeze
As we wait for the spring to melt the freeze

Love can be likened to nature’s four seasons
Feelings may change for a number of reasons
Today is the start of the rest of our lives
And we’re sharing the seasons of love
The seasons of love
The seasons of love
The seasons of love

SHIPS OF THE DESERT
© Shaza Leigh
& Brian Young   

Lyrics Written by: Shaza Leigh & Brian Young
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh
First Recorded by: Brian Young - Voice Of The Outback
Released by: LBS Music Group
Covered by: Brian Young & Kathryn Pitt - Last Of The Travelling Showmen
Covered by : Ashley Cook - Salutes Brian Young

Explorers of this nation extraordinary men

Open up the country and we remember them

The mighty feats of the camel forgotten now it seems

But the Ships of the Desert carried man beyond his dreams

Bullockys with bullock teams and teamsters with their horse

Made a vital contribution and played the part of course

But Australia's arid inland proved way beyond their means

The answer to the problem seemed to be the camel teams

Ships of the desert carried the load

Across this country before there were roads

They were the backbone of discovery

Ships of the desert made history

Late in 1840 the first camel reached our shores

And from India in '60 they imported 24

For Burke and Wills and others to fulfil their dreams

But the fates of the camel are forgotten now it seems

Mohammed was the captain of these ships of the land

And helped in the construction of the line they called the Ghan

From telegraph and railway lines to gold fields of the west

Until the 1920's when they put the teams to rest

Ships of the desert carried the load

Across this country before there were roads

They were the backbone of discovery

Ships of the desert made history

Ships of the desert carried the load

Across this country before there were roads

They were the backbone of discovery

Ships of the desert made history

They were the backbone of discovery

Ships of the desert made history

SOMEONE LIKE YOU
© Shaza Leigh & Roy Sinnamon

Lyrics Written by: Shaza Leigh & Roy Sinnamon
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh
First Recorded by: Shaza Leigh
Released by: LBS Music Group
Album: My Way Of Life - Shaza Leigh  (2003)

Someone like you made the difference
when my days were darker than night

Someone like you lifted someone like me
just asking if I was alright

When the rest of the world took the fight out of me
and everything seemed to go wrong

A kind smiling face put me back in the race
and gave me the words of this song

You are the brother and sister of man

You hold the power of love in your hands

I thought it all over and I know that it's true

A smile made a difference from a stranger like you

Yes a smile makes the difference from a stranger like you

I walked with the lost and forgotten
their worlds not like yours and mine

Someone like you made the difference to me
with words so thoughtful and kind

These eyes that were blinded could see a new dawn
the lost and the lonely are gone

The kind words you found have turned me around
and gave me the strength to go on

You are the brother and sister of man

You hold the power of love in your hands

I thought it all over and I know that it's true

A smile made a difference from a stranger like you

Yes a smile makes the difference from a stranger like you

I stood in the dark fields of sorrow
where the sun and the moon couldn't shine

Someone like you gave the faith back to me
I thought I had lost for all time

When the last of the flowers had withered and died
it now makes no difference to me

For someone like you had a message so true
of faith hope and eternity

You are the brother and sister of man

You hold the power of love in your hands

I thought it all over and I know that it's true

A smile made a difference from a stranger like you

Yes a smile makes the difference from a stranger like you

SOMETIMES
© Shaza Leigh

Lyrics Written by: Shaza Leigh
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh
First Recorded by: Shaza Leigh
Released by: LBS Music Group
DVD: At Home - Shaza Leigh & Lindsay Butler (2012)
Album: Where Our Heart Lives - Shaza Leigh  (2019)

Sometimes love, can mask our inner pain
Sometimes love, can reach out time and time again
Sometimes love, can lift us, when life feels too tough
And sometimes love, is just not enough

Sometimes I, can hold you and see the real smile
Sometimes I, can love you and know it’s all worthwhile
Sometimes I, can show you, the road is not that rough
And sometimes I, am just not enough

Sometimes you, can see me for who I really am
Sometimes you, can teach me, to be all that I can
Sometimes you, can help me let go of crazy stuff
And sometimes you, are just not enough

Sometimes love, will hide our deepest pain
Sometimes love, will raise us beyond the hurt again
Sometimes love, will show us, that path not too rough
But sometimes love, is just not enough

No sometimes love, is just not enough
Yes sometimes, enough’s enough!

SON OF AUSSIE SOIL
© Shaza Leigh & Greg Gordon

Lyrics Written by: Shaza Leigh & Greg Gordon
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh
First Recorded by: Brian Letton & Shaza Leigh
Released by: LBS Music Group
Album: The Best Of Vol 2 - Brian Letton

SPIRIT OF AUSTRALIA
© Shaza Leigh & Manfred Vijars

Lyrics Written by: Shaza Leigh & Manfred Vijars
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh
First Recorded by: Shaza Leigh
Released by: LBS Music Group
Album: Just A Dream Away - Shaza Leigh

Black man came and he began

To push the borderlines of man

White man followed in their tracks

Worked and toiled with bended backs

And as all people came as one

We built a culture of our own

The Spirit of Australia

Hear her heart and hear our song

See our home where we belong

Feel our pride our nation strong

Oh it is the Spirit of Australia

Yes it is the Spirit of Australia

We look around our spirits soar

The froth of oceans lap our shore

And this great land is our delight

The Southern Cross bejewels the night

We’ve a nation to be proud

So let’s sing her praises loud

The Spirit of Australia

Hear her heart and hear our song

See our home where we belong

Feel our pride our nation strong

Oh it is the Spirit of Australia
Yes it is the Spirit of Australia

Oh it is the Spirit of Australia
Yes it is the Spirit of Australia

SPRINGTIME ON MONARO
© Shaza Leigh, Billy Wye & Dale Duncan

Lyrics Written by: Shaza Leigh, Billy Wye & Dale Duncan
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh
First Recorded by: Dale Duncan & Dianne Lindsay
Released by: LBS Music Group
Album: Heart Of Australia - Dale Duncan

‘Tis Springtime on Monaro none ever yet fairer

The snows among the sheltered slopes stay lingering behind 

The streams that owe existence to the ranges in the distance

Leap down hollows flinging their wild music to the wind

Along those snow-fed waters Monaro's son’s and daughters

As fresh and fair as Alpine air, are born to grace the earth

And blessed by mother Nature in feature form and stature

Arise a fitting tribute to the land that gave them birth

Arise a fitting tribute to the land that gave them birth

As some colossal giant, Kosciusko stands defiant

A glory of Creation truly picturesque and grand

From Time’s inceptive stages keeping guard throughout the ages

A hoary-headed sentinel above a smiling land

A bush-birds’ chorus welling like some grand paean swelling

Holds one transfixed and spellbound with the raptures of their note

In ecstasy of living in one grand glad thanks-giving

Their joys soar up to heaven from the love-songs in their throats
Their joys soar up to heaven from the love-songs in their throats

The bees come downward winging their golden nectars bringing

From moss-beds silvered with the dews and scented by the heath

The mountain breezes vagrant, with bough and blossoms fragrant

Come rustling from the ridges to the tranquil vales beneath

Old Nature’s charms are rarer with Springtime on Monaro

Because of silent scenes untrod where solitude has lease

There is not on all the planet, a fairer picture than it

With the ranges bathed in sunshine, and the valleys filled with peace

STAND UP FOR SLIM
© Shaza Leigh & Dudley Corbett

Lyrics Written by: Shaza Leigh & Dudley Corbett
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh
First Recorded by: Ashley Cook & Lindsay Butler
Released by: LBS Music Group
Album: For Country The Flag & Me - Ashley Cook

Australia was his birthplace and he travelled every state

He brought to us his music with a cheery g’day mate

And we’ll always remember you may rest assured of that

The man who was Australia the man with the turned down hat

All over this country his songs spread afar

And his travelling show knew the dirt beyond the tar

Success was his master he’d surpassed his life long goals

The man who was Australia the man touched our heart and soul

And he’ll not be forgotten he reigned as the king

His heart bled Australia though songs he would sing

May his light shine upon us and never grow dim

All hail Australia let’s stand up for slim

And fate then intervened with her powerful hand

And our mate is now resting the toast of the land

And we came together as one to celebrate

The man who was Australia the man we all called a mate

And he’ll not be forgotten he reigned as the king

his heart bled Australia though songs he would sing

May his light shine upon us and never grow dim

All hail Australia let’s stand up for slim

SURROUNDED BY LOVE
© Shaza Leigh

Lyrics Written by: Shaza Leigh
Melody Composed by: Shaza Leigh
First Recorded by: Shaza Leigh
Released by: LBS Music Group
Album: Blessings - Shaza Leigh  (2023)

There’s an ache that dwells down in my heart hidden deep within

It rises to the surface every now and then

And there’s no rhyme nor reason why it hits me as it does

A trigger wakes a memory and my soul becomes exposed

But surrounded by love life does go on

Sometimes when I’m tired and don’t feel so strong

Surrounded by love each mountain we climb

A life lesson’s learned revealed in good time

And at times when life seems all too hard we question who we are

And search beyond all reason for answers from afar

There’s angels there to guide us just listen as we call

Light leads us from the darkness when our backs against the wall

But surrounded by love life does go on

Sometimes when I’m tired and don’t feel so strong

Surrounded by love each mountain we climb

A life lesson’s learned revealed in good time