He comes from the Land of the brown grizzly bear <br />The ageing American with silver gray hair <br />From western Nebraska a long way from here <br />He looks fit and well for one in his seventieth year <br />In the pub he talks of his homeplace far away <br />His State of Nebraska in the U S of A <br />And though his wife and children and grandchildren are Aussies like it has been said before <br />The migrant will always recall the Homeland Shore <br />The songs that he loved as a Nebraska boy <br />Of the great Stephen Foster he still does enjoy <br />A nice enough old bloke locally well known <br />And to his local community he is one of their own <br />The accent he was born into he does retain <br />That bit of his Homeland with him does remain.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ageing-american/
