When the Snow Falls on the Alice

I spent some time out in the canefields

I headed west to Lightning Ridge

I've seen every lonely roadhouse

From Charleville to Murray Bridge

I see your face in every shadow

I hear your voice upon the wind

The more I try to forget you

The more your memory rushes in

When the snow falls on the Alice and it floods at Tilberoo

When the Roper freezes over, that's when I'll stop loving you

Just like the end of the rainbow

You're always just out of reach

We parted in a moment

But I've been leaving you for years

So don't ask where I'm goin'

'Cause I won't know 'til I arrive

Though you're a thousand miles behind me

You're never far from my mind

When the snow falls on the Alice and it floods at Tilberoo

I'll lay my burden down, and my waitin' will be through

Till then you'll find me on the highway just somewhere beyond the blue

When the Roper freezes over, that's when I'll stop loving you