The Burning Heart

She came down from up near Katherine

Moved in across the ridge

She was every thing a young man could desire

Out there in the ranges

In secret we would meet

My heart ran as wild as desert fire

Like a burnin' sun beating down

She sparked a flame on virgin ground

If by chance a fire should start

No one could tame the burnin' heart

Well her father owned the station

Where I rode the boundary fences

And he made it clear for all the hands to see

That a man could easily wind up

On the wrong end of his shotgun

And his little girl was only seventeen

Like a burning sun beating down

She sparked a flame on virgin ground

And if by chance a fire should start

No one could tame the burnin' heart

She came on me like the summer

Wrapped around me like the wind

My defences buckled in the heat

Out there on the station

The sunsets amber glow

As our lips met a fire was released

Like a burning sun beating down

She sparked a flame on virgin ground

If by chance a fire should start

No one could tame the burnin' heart

Like a burning sun beating down

She sparked a flame on virgin ground

If by chance a fire should start

No one could tame the burnin' heart

The burnin' heart