Ringer And The Princess

D G Everybody called him Dingo D He didn't seem to mind the name A Aboriginal and Asian blood D Ran 50/50 in his veins G With skin like saddle leather D An inscrutable kind of smile A Beneath the brim of his Akubra D He had the dreaming in his eyes D G She had a bloodline back to Europe D The boss' daughter, Maryanne A Home for Christmas at the station D From a boarding school in Cairns G With such a perfect face and figure D The boys blush when she walked by A Behind her back, they called her princess D Cause she had the distance in her eyes Chours D G Oh the ringer and the princess D The dingo and the deer A I'll tell you their story D If you want to hear D G December rain fell with a vengeance D From a cyclone in the Gulf A Bone dry gullies turned to rivers D And plains became a sea of mud G So the boss brought everyone together D The family and the station hands A To open gates and knockdown fences D And give the stock a fighting chance D G Well the princess she was out there D Riding right alongside the men A Leading horses up to safety D Trying to bring the stragglers in G Till she heard a wild commotion D A little further down the way A A mare was trying to cross a gully D And it's foal was being washed away D G Now the young have always been impulsive D The princess had no second thoughts A She rode her mount into that gully D Trying to save the drowning horse G But in the midst of the raging water D Her pony lost it's step and fell A And with her foot caught in the stirrup D The princess disappeared as well D G Dingo saw the whole thing happen D And like a man possessed he rode A Straight into that swollen gully D About a hundred yards below G And by the time the others got there D All hope of finding her was gone A Till Dingo staggered from the water D With the princess in his arms Chours D G Oh the ringer and the princess D The dingo and the deer A I'll tell you their story D If you want to hear D G Now the princess owns the station D Her dad, the boss, has long since died A And although she never married D Dingo's always by her side G And still the gossips talk about them D Even after all these years A About the ringer and the princess D The dingo and the deer D A About the ringer and the princess D The dingo and the deer