Caves Are Calling - Captain Melville

Chorus

Out where the gold runs wild and free

Through the bush and the dust and the eucalypt trees

Captain Melville rides in the night

A shadow on granite, gone with the light

Post-Chorus

Oh the caves are calling

Oh the wind keeps rolling

Verse 2

Squatters kept trembling at the crack of his gun

Diggers clutched hope till the morning was spun

Bold without blood, a hat tipped to grace

No life ever taken, just gold in its place

Pre-Chorus

Through rocks and gum leaves his legend remains

In stories as old as the gold in the veins

Chorus

Out where the gold runs wild and free

Through the bush and the dust and the eucalypt trees

Captain Melville rides in the night

A shadow on granite, gone with the light

Post-Chorus

Oh the caves are calling

Oh the wind keeps rolling

Chorus

Out where the gold runs wild and free

Through the bush and the dust and the eucalypt trees

Captain Melville rides in the night

A shadow on granite, gone with the light

Post-Chorus

Oh the caves are calling

Oh the wind keeps rolling

Bridge

Now the gold rush has faded, and silence remains

Those granite caves echo his unforgotten name

A tale for the campfire when shadows grow tall

Of fortunes and bush rangers lost to us all

Chorus

Out where the gold runs wild and free

Through the bush and the dust and the eucalypt trees

Captain Melville rides in the night

A legend remembered beneath southern skies

Post-Chorus

Oh the caves are calling

Oh the wind keeps rolling