The Ringer and the Princess

Everybody called him Dingo He didn't seem to mind the name Aboriginal and Asian blood Ran 50/50 in his veins With skin like saddle leather An inscrutible kind of smile Beneath the brim of his akubra He had the dreaming in his eyes She had a bloodline back to Europe The boss' daughter, Maryanne Home for Christmas at the station From a boarding school in Cairns With such a perfect face and figure The boys'd blush when she walked by Behind her back they called her princess Cause she had the distance in her eyes Oh the ringer and the princess The dingo and the deer I'll tell you their story If you want to hear December rain fell with a vengence From a cyclone in the Gulf Bone dry gullies turned to rivers And plains became a sea of mud So the boss brought everyone together The family and the stationhands To open gates and knock down fences And give the stock a fighting chance Well the princess she was out there Riding right alongside the man 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 it's foal was being washed away Now the young have always been impulsive The princess had no second thoughts She rode her mount into that gully Trying to save the drowning horse But in the midst of the raging water Her pony lost it's step and fell And with her foot caught in the stirrup The princess disappeared as well Dingo saw the whole thing happen And like a man possessed he rode Straight into that swollen gully About a hundred yards below And by the time the others got there All hope of finding her was gone Till Dingo staggered from the water With the princess in his arms Oh the ringer and the princess The dingo and the deer I'll tell you their story If you want to hear 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 The dingo and the deer About the ringer and the princess The dingo and the deer