Cold Chisel Taipan Lyrics

Taipan Lyrics

Taipan

 He'll get you when he can

 Ooh

 He'll get you when he can

 

 Makes his home in a mangrove tree

 Sleep plantation family

 White man planter, Bundaberg rum

 Childhood rattle, trumpet and drum

 

 Stay with me

 Stay with me, oh yeah

 Until the morning comes

 

 Taipan

 He'll get you when he can

 Ooh

 He'll get you when he can

 

 These days, I can't explain

 But I can smell the monsoon rain

 Seasons come, and seasons turn

 More and more, canefields burning

 Early in the morning, the afternoon

 Pathways blazed in a mangrove moon

 Burning down my eyes

 

 (Railroad goes, Kalamia mill

 If the heat don't get you, Taipan will

 Six o'clock, the whistle sings

 C.S.R. is the sugar-cane king)

 

 Stay with me

 Stay with me

 Taipan

 He'll get you when he can

 Ooh

 He'll get you when he can