He didn't seem to mind the name
With skin like saddle leather,
an inscrutable kind of smile
Akubra, he had the dreaming in his eyes
She had a bloodline back to
From a boarding school in
With such a perfect face and figure
Behind her back they called
Cause she had the distance in her eyes
Oh, the ringer and the princess
I'll tell you that story if
December rain fell with a ven
geance from a cyclone in the
Bone -dried gullies turned to rivers
And plains became a sea of mud
So the boss brought everyone together
The family and the station hands
To open gates and knock down fences
Give the stock a fighting chance
Well the princess she was out there
Riding right alongside the men
Leading horses up to safety
Trying to bring the stragglers in
Till she heard a wild commotion
A little further down the way
A mare was trying to cross a gully
And its foal was being washed away
Now the young have always
The princess had no second thoughts
She rode her mountain to that gully
Trying to save the drowned horse
But in the midst of the raging waters
Her pony lost its step and fell
With her foot caught in the stirrup
The princess disappeared as well
Dingo saw the whole thing happen
Like a man -possessed he rode
Straight into that swollen gully
About a hundred yards below
By the time the others got there
All hope of finding her was gone
Till dingo staggered from the water
With the princess in its arms
Oh, the ringer and the princess
Now the princess owns the station
Her dad, the boss, has long since died
And although she never married,
Dingo's always by her side.
And still the gossips talk about them,
Even after all these years,
About the ringer and the princess,
About the ringer and the princess,
