When I was just a young man I remember being told By a weather beaten bushman Grizzled grey & old He was sitting on a bar stool On a sale day in the town Oh it's time to get the rum out When the Currawongs come down When the Currawongs come down from the mountains To the warmer valley country down below When the Currawongs come down from the timber It's a sign of rough weather, rain or snow Through out the passing years So often I have heard The plain & simple Currawong Refered to as great birds Well I have studied nature closely I have always found It's time to don your oilskins When the Currawongs come down When the Currawongs come down from the mountains To the warmer valley country down below When the Currawongs come down from the timber It's a sign of rough weather, rain or snow I know many indications Learn't from bushman I have met Indications of the weather Dry or cold or wet & Sometimes they are right you know & Sometimes wrong I've found But there's no two ways about it When the Currawongs come down When the Currawongs come down from the mountains To the warmer valley country down below When the Currawongs come down from the timber It's a sign of rough weather, rain or snow Well I live here in the Snowy's With their howling winter winds Were as soon as summers over The winter time begins Where the artists love the beauty Of frost upon the ground Then it's time for winter fires When the Currawongs come down When the Currawongs come down from the mountains To the warmer valley country down below When the Currawongs come down from the timber It's a sign of rough weather, rain or snow