What care I what wins the races?
What care I for falling stock?
What care I for airs and graces
Of the flappers on the Block?
All my cares have passed away;
I'm beyond all dull complaining,
For the skies are leaden grey;
And it's raining, raining, raining!
Plague me with no pleasant duties
Of this sunny land of ours,
While the country side and cites
Are athirst for cooling showers.
All my worries now are sped --
Now that Sovereign Summer's waning;
And five million folk are fed;
For it's raining! RAINING! RAINING!
First published in the Sun News-Pictorial, 11 May 1927
Author reference sites: C.J. Dennis, Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian Poetry Library
See also.
Note: the reference here to "the Block" refers to the Block Arcade in Melbourne at the corner of Collins and Elizabeth Streets.
What care I for falling stock?
What care I for airs and graces
Of the flappers on the Block?
All my cares have passed away;
I'm beyond all dull complaining,
For the skies are leaden grey;
And it's raining, raining, raining!
Plague me with no pleasant duties
Of this sunny land of ours,
While the country side and cites
Are athirst for cooling showers.
All my worries now are sped --
Now that Sovereign Summer's waning;
And five million folk are fed;
For it's raining! RAINING! RAINING!
First published in the Sun News-Pictorial, 11 May 1927
Author reference sites: C.J. Dennis, Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian Poetry Library
See also.
Note: the reference here to "the Block" refers to the Block Arcade in Melbourne at the corner of Collins and Elizabeth Streets.
