[00:09.474]You can talk of your whiskey and talk of your beer[00:13.075]There's something much nicer that's waiting us here[00:17.077]It sits on the fire beneath the gum tree[00:20.897]There's nothing much nicer than a billy of tea![00:25.203][00:33.590]So fill up your tumblers as high as you can[00:37.214]And don't you dare tell me it's not the best plan[00:41.023]You can let all your beer and your spirits go free[00:44.696]I'll stick to my darling old billy of tea[00:48.920][00:57.420]I'll rise in the morning as soon as it's light[01:00.902]And I go to the nosebag to see it's alright[01:04.613]That the ants on the sugar no mortgage have got[01:08.363]And straight away sling my old black billy-pot[01:12.446][01:20.749]And while it is boiling the horses I seek[01:24.340]And follow them down as far as the creek[01:28.259]I take off their hobbles and let them run free[01:32.026]Then haste to tuck into my billy of tea[01:36.014][01:44.408]And at night when I camp, if the day has been warm[01:48.151]I give to my horses their tucker of corn[01:51.833]From the two in the pole to the one in the lead[01:55.348]A billy for each holds a comfortable feed[01:59.391][02:07.134]Then the fire I make and the water I get[02:10.728]And corned beef and damper in order I set[02:14.440]But I don't touch the grub, though so hungry I be[02:18.203]I wait till it's ready - my billy of tea![02:22.417][02:29.553]You can talk of your whiskey and talk of your beer[02:33.106]There's something much nicer that's waiting us here[02:36.927]It sits on the fire beneath the gum tree[02:40.922]There's nothing much nicer than a billy of tea!