The Golden Mile Songtext / Lyric

The whole town s on the loop line

Two up rules the day

Pennies rising with the sun

Except for the day that mum gets her pay



The black man

And the white man

Are scratching their sunburnt face

While digging themselves

A hole in the ground

To find a better place



Everybody wants a holiday

With a full day s pay

Some people need it

Some people steal it

Some people have it anyway






Children watch a father

Twelve hours full of sweat

They look in his eye and see the future

in the leather skin spinners bet

While the black man

And the white man

Still scratch a weary face

While they re digging themselves

A hole in the ground

To find a better place



Everybody wants a holiday

With a full day s pay

Some people need it

Some people steal it

Some people have it anyway



Can you see your children falling

Down kalgoorlie s hill

Can they see the future in the miners



Golden swill, when s it going to rain

Golden swill, when s it going to come



It s been a long time sweating

When you run the golden mile



Oh kalgoorlie when s it gonna rain

Oh kalgoorlie when s it gonna come