Thank you.Well, I've walked a mile or two in my lifetime, and I've traveled down some muddy tracks anddrives.Thank you.Well, I've walked a mile or two in my lifetime, and I've traveled down some muddy tracks anddrives.Because if I wanted to get where I was going, I knew I just had to walk that country mile.Now, a country mile would be the longest distance a man could ever travel in his day.And you curse the never-ending road before you when you think you'll never make it intotown.But you meet a friend or two along the highway, and you learn a lot you never knew before.So if the journey takes a lifetime when you've thought a year or two, well, you just don'tgive up easy anymore.Hey.Yeah, I've walked a mile or two in my lifetime, and I've traveled down some muddy tracks anddrives.Because if I wanted to get where I was going, I knew I just had to walk that country mile.Here it comes.Yeah.Walking that long mile has shown me changes, changes in the people and the land.And I'll bet the road to Marble Bar's no better than when I drove with trucks and caravans.And the country bloke is still the same old bantler no matter what the place he's workingin.And although I've covered many miles, I still can't wait to see what the next long countrymile will bring.Here it comes.Well, I've walked a mile or two in my lifetime, and I've traveled down some muddy tracks anddrives.Because if I wanted to get where I was going, I knew I just had to walk that country mile.Hey.Yeah, I knew I had to walk that country mile.That's right.Let's give a big typical North Queensland welcome to First Lady of Country Music inAustralia, Joey McKean.He's here right now.Thank you, Slim.Thank you, Slim.Here's a song which, just for change, instead of writing for someone else, I wrote for myself.And it's written from the memories that I have of a farm that my mother came from.