Sweetheart, I'm bidding you fond farewell
I would be yours some day
I'm bound for a new land, my fortune to try
And I'm ready to sail away
Far away in Australia
Soon will fate be kind
And I will be ready to welcome at last
The girl I've left behind
Oh, you can't leave me the spoon didn't said
I would not let you go
But I must leave you, he gently replied
If for only a while, you know
Far away in Australia
Soon will fate be kind
And I will be ready to welcome at last
The girl I've left behind
Now it's success or a failure
I will always be true
I'm proud in each day in a land far away
I've been choosing a home for you
Daily she waits at the old cottage gate
Watching the whole day through
Then one day a message from over the sea
And I'm hoping these words are true
Far away in Australia
Now us called the time
When I am ready to welcome at last
The girl I've left behind.