Singer/Songwriter Neil Higgins' tribute to Burke and Wills "Endless Dreams"

Neil Higgins Singer/Songwriter

Beechworth Vic.

Singer/Songwriter Neil Higgins, writes & performs a combination of mostly original songs that are delivered from a contemporary, Australian cultural, environmental & humanity prospective.
Some of Neil’s songs have gained deep acceptance across the broad community such as with his new song, “Endless Dreams” (Burke & Wills). This new song, together with many other original songs Neil has written include;
“I’ll Stand Alone” (Ned Kelly),
“Out of the Ashes-Into the Sun” (Vic Bushfire Tribute),
“Perfect World” (Humanitarian),
"Shearing the Rams" (Tribute to the great painting of Tom Roberts and the early shearing industry)
“The Filling of our Lakes" (Environmental inflows of the Murray & Darling River system)

and many others.
Neil can be contacted on Mobile 0427 176 742



“Endless dreams” (Burke & Wills)

Words & lyrics written by Neil Higgins.
All rights reserved Neil Higgins 2010.

Journey to the centre, Discovery of the red earth
Entering the place of the Spirit land, Is there any hope for return.
Wagon wheels in motion, Camel trains move forward
Burke & Wills set upon an unknown course, Are there any lessons to be learned.
Journey to the centre, Calling of the ‘Red Earth’
Expedition trekking on an unknown course, Is there any hope for return.

And as the cavalcade rolled out of Melbourne toward the plains
From the ‘Great Southern Ocean’
through the Sandy Desert to the ‘Northern Seas’.
This great exploring conquest then had set out to fulfil the dream
To break through the ancient heartland
held in the interior desert scene.

Journey to the centre, Destined for their glory
Burke & Wills trekking on an unknown course, Is there any hope for return.
Timeless geographics offer the serenity unexplained
From the banks of the sleepy River ‘Darling’ - to the oasis of the ‘Cooper Creek’
Overland exploratory within a land that holds no scale
Through the home of the ‘Yandruwandha’ People, to the Northern ‘Gulf’ they now had trailed.

Journey to the centre, Discovery of the red earth
Now re-entering the Spirit land, Is there any hope for return
Is there any hope for return
Journey to the centre, Discovery of the red earth
Now re-entering the Spirit land, Is there any hope for return.

Instrumental:

Confusion at the ‘Dig Tree’ spells their glory and their fail
The death of Burke and Wills tells a grim and torrid tale.
While ancient Tribal Laws respect the Nature and the land
John King found his salvation, in ‘Yandruwandha’s Tribal hands.
The Spirit of the land beholds the hardship and the pains
A Spirit that is free fills the heart with Endless Dreams.