Opening Chorus

Oh, the squatters and the cockies are in town
Oh, the squatters and the cockies are in town
We're gonna paint the whole town red
We're never going to go to bed
Look out when country cousins come to town.

Taranaki farmers love a hooley
Taranaki farmers love a spree
Drunken shearers getting unruly
We're all having a jamboree.

Kuripuku townies fleece the hayseeds
Kuripuku townies milk them dry
Fat stock agents get the proceeds
Farmers never reason why.

I ain't seen a girl since November
My love-life's just a slowly dying ember
There ain't no fun in hosing 'round the cowshed.
What girls are like I hardly can remember.

(Sung by 4 town girls)
All the year we're lonely and neglected
But if a little stranger is expected
The gossips all go counting back to showday
It's bound to be some farmhand that's suspected.

But the townie and the farmer must be friends
Yes, the townie and the farmer should be friends
The farmer's crops to town are sent
The townie adds his ten per cent
But that's no, reason why they can't be friends

Everybody wants a celebration
Everybody wants to make whoopee
Starting off with sheer elation
Gonna have a jubilee

Kuripuku folk are all together
Revellers out for a holiday
We're all set to go forever
Here's to Kuripuku Bay!