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When I was a little girl |
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I had the biggest backyard in the world |
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It went on for miles and miles, was wide as it was high |
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Down to the horizon, all the way up to the sky |
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And every now and then |
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I heard a vile tree cry my name |
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When I was a little girl |
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I had the biggest backyard in the world |
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Covered up with red dirt as far as |
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I could see |
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I shared it with the railway and the |
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Aborigines |
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Southwest of |
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Adelaide All the way down to the sea and back |
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When I was a little girl |
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I had the biggest backyard in the world |
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The sun would shine until the day |
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I asked for it to rain |
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Countdown the sleeps until the tea and sugar train |
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Ten cents on the track for days |
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Before it never came and went |
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When I was a little girl |
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I had the biggest backyard in the world |
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Sitting 'round the campfire that started from a spark |
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Rolling down the |
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Gun Barrel |
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Highway in the dark |
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Making sure that |
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I had all the room here in my house |
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For me and all of the world |
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When I was a little girl |
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I had the biggest backyard in the world |