When a Rooster Crows

Remember taking rides on the back of your green ute

Looking for spent cartridges left from the times you'd shoot

Try to make them whistle as we bounced along the track

You up in the front and us kids up on the back

Recall the Orpingtons you loved, the buff more than the black

You'd take them off to shows and often bring the ribbons back

Incubator full of eggs, we'd watch to see them hatch

Knowing it won't be too long until there is another batch

Every time a rooster crows, I think of you again

Remember how we used to love to visit you back then

Some memories will fade with time, but these ones only grow

I think of you when a rooster crows

Remember long hot summer days inside just watching cricket

Sitting alongside you for each run and every wicket

Soaking up your knowledge as you spoke on every ball

Sharing all your love for the greatest sport of all

Think back on the yarns you'd spin, the stories you would tell

Such a raconteur, no one else could do it half as well

Tell how you grew a moustache once just to impress a girl

And how you met your princess, the one who was your world

Every time a rooster crows, I miss you once again

And I think of how I wish that I could be like you back then

Some losses will just fade with time, but this one only grows

I miss you more when a rooster crows

A man of such embedded faith, you'd share it anywhere

And show it through the way you'd love and in the way you'd care

Some people say I look like you

That's good enough for me

If I'm even half the man you were, then what a man I'd be

And every time a rooster crows, I love you even more

You may be gone for many years, but I love you like before

Some loves will slowly fade with time, but this one only grows

I love you more when a rooster crows

I miss you more when a rooster crows

I think of you when a rooster crows