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 I could see
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I shared it with the railway and the Aborigines
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Southwest of Adelaide
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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 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 Gun Barrel Highway in the dark
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Making sure that 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
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Nullarbor / The Biggest Backyard
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| Kasey Chambers |
