Slim Dusty's video: Slim Dusty - When The Rain Tumbles Down In July

Music video by Slim Dusty performing When The Rain Tumbles Down In July Stream Slim Dusty here: https://SlimDusty.lnk.to/stream-now Lyrics: Let me wander north to the ho-omestead Way out further on there to roam By a gully in flood, let me linger When the summery sunshine has flown Where the logs tangle up on the creek beds And clouds fill the old northern sky And the cattle move back from the lowlands When the rain tumbles down in July The settlers with sad hearts are watching The rise of the stream from the dawn Their best crops are always in flood reach If it rises much more they'll be gone The cattle string out along the fences The wind from the south races by And the limbs from the old gums are fallen When the rain tumbles down in July The sleeping gums on the hillside Awaken to herds strayin' by Here on the flats where the fences have vanished As the storm clouds gather on high The wheels of the wagons stop turning The stock horse is turned out to stray The old station dogs are a-dozin' On the husks in the barn through the day The drover draws rein by the river And it's years since he's seen it so high Yes and that's just a story of homeward When the rain tumbles down in July Slim Dusty, AO MBE (born David Gordon Kirkpatrick; 13 June 1927 – 19 September 2003) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was an Australian cultural icon and one of the country's most awarded stars, with a career spanning nearly seven decades and numerous recordings. He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australia, particularly of bush life and renowned Australian bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson that represented the lifestyle. The music genre was coined the "bush ballad", a style first made popular by Buddy Williams, the first artist to perform the genre in Australia, and also for his many trucking songs. Dusty was the first Australian to have a No. 1 international hit song, with a version of Gordon Parsons' "A Pub with No Beer". He received an unequalled 37 Golden Guitar and two Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) awards and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and the Country Music Roll of Renown.