Western Island Songtext
von Archie Fisher

I came to a western island
As far as a man can walk is my land
I cleared ten acres and a house I built
Into the side of the hill

The roof leaks, the windows rattle
And the grass in the high ground won′t feed cattle
The west wind blown off the sea
Makes it hard to grow a tree

One cow and a lean-to bier
A spring close by and a driftwood fire
A clear view of the settin' sun
And a 12 gauge hammer gun


I keep sheep, I fish deep water
In a high bowed boat called the Neptune′s Daughter
She will ride any western gale
And can carry a stack of sails

Some nights when the bright lights flicker
I sail to the mainland for my liquor
I haven't got a woman to call my own
But I never wake up alone

A man needs to feel the ground and the wind
To tell him the world spins round
To watch the stars and taste the sea
And a woman to keep him free

I came to a western island
As far as a man can walk is my land
I cleared ten acres and a house I built
Into the side of the hill