E
Should ever I go back to Camooweal,
                                             B7
T'would be in the spring when desert flowers bloom.

Oh the spinifex I know would still be there
                                         E
And the desert pea would brighten up the gloom

       E
Should ever I go back to Camooweal
                                    A
One thing is sure I'd not be twenty-two,
                                     E
As if that day when I first wandered there,
    B7                                E
But mem'ries stay with me as mem'ries do.

[Verse 2]
E
How fresh her mem'ry keeps for still I feel
                                  B7
The velvet softness of her auburn hair,

And see again the moonbeams in her eyes
                                E
As I did so long ago when I was there.

      E
Youth called to youth in that now distant day.
                                 A
I did not heed, my heart did not reveal,
                                      E
And now I know that love was born and lost
        B7                         E
In that little border town of Camooweal.

[Verse 3]
E
Oh, the long road beckoned on, my feet said go
                                        B7
To search beyond the hills for what I'd find.

Although I've wandered far this sunburnt land
                                  E
I've never found what I have left behind.

       E
Oh the burning fire of that other spring
                                     A
Is now but ashes, and the hurt won't heal
                                               E
Time heals all wounds they say, but leaves the scar,
     B7                             E
So I think I'll not go back to Camooweal,

     A                                         E
Time heals all wounds they say, but leaves the scar
     B7                             E
So I think I'll not go back to Camooweal.

      B7                             E
No, I think I'll not go back to Camooweal.