How they came to be together,
Where the Buller River flows
Bill Hopkins was born at Man Stanley
Where the great tall timber grows
Eva's father was a red -haired Scotsman
The mind opals in the great outback
Her mother was a colourly wo man,
she was a full -blood black
Colourly woman, redhead Scotchman
Raising the family as best they can
Two different cultures, one happy clan
Eva's mother married Tom Conlon
Tom was a quiet and gentle man
That was when the government men
came to their shanty shack,
Took Eva, her two sisters,
and their little brother Jack.
Cullally children cried all night,
Taken from their mother because
All innocent victims of a
Bill's mother was a waka -waka woman,
his father was a plummy man
He sailed from his mother country
to start again in this great land
As young Bill grew older,
his father taught him the ABC
And he learned about his heritage
as he sat on his mother's knee
Waka waka woman, proud mummy man
Raisin' a family as best they can
Two different cultures, one happy clan
Before they came together,
there was sadness in their life
Abra had just been jilted
and Bill had lost his wife
When they met at Granny Conlon's,
light re turned to their eyes
And they swore to be together
for the rest of their lives
Colorly woman, what a, what a man
Married at Barambas, as they held hands
In a little mission chapel,
Called each other Bungie,
for the rest of their lives
Colourly woman, wife of wife of man
How they came to be together,
