Kilmore / Patton Family / Upper Plenty / Wallan / Wandong

Pretty Sally’s Hill by J.W.Payne (1981)

by Gary Patton · Published October 12, 2017 · Updated October 15, 2017

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The Tale O’ William Patton

In the Orkney Isles, where the wild winds blaw,
A lad named William, wi' dreams in aw,
At fourteen years, he left the shore,
A cabin boy, seekin' so much more.

### Chorus

Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

Frae Viking blood, his line did flow,
Frae Normandy’s shores, where battles grow,
In 1066, they heard the cry,
To William the Conqueror, they did fly.

### Chorus

Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

For five hunner years, they stood sae braw,
Frae England’s fields tae the castle’s law,
Then north they wandered in sixteen-hun,
Tae Scotland’s glens where their tale begun.

### Chorus

Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

Two hunner years, they made their hame,
'Til William sailed on a southern flame,
On the 27th o’ January, in eighteen-forty-six,
He landed in Port Phillip, wi' dreams and bricks.

### Chorus
Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

Frae Port Phillip Bay, where the city now stands,
Tae Upper Plenty’s bonnie lands,
He swung his hammer, laid the rail,
On Comet Village, Sawmills, and Tramway’s trail.

### Chorus

Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

On Melbourne's tracks, his hands were strong,
Buildin' the line where the trains belong,
Tae Sydney’s toon, the steel would run,
Under the burnin' Australian sun.

### Chorus
Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

### Bridge
Noo in the south, where the winds do moan,
William Patton found his own,
Far frae the isles where his journey began,
A Scottish lad, noo a workin' man.

### Final Chorus
Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

### Outro
So raise a dram to the lad who fled,
Frae Orkney’s shores tae the life he led,
William Patton, his name we sing,
A Scottish heart, wi' a builder's wing.

### Final Verse
Frae Normandy’s fields tae England’s shores,
For five hunner years, they settled the scores,
To William the Conqueror’s call they came,
And Patton’s line forever gained its name.

In Scotland’s glens, two hunner mair,
'Til Australia called in eighteen-forty-six.
Och, William Patton, a journey grand,
Frae Viking blood tae this southern land.

His name endures, through history’s sang,
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Pretty Sally’s Hill by J.W.Payne (1981)

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2 x Great Grandson of George Harrison (1849 - 1939), Son of Convict George Harrison and the first European baby born in Euroa, Victoria, Australia, born on the Sevens Creek behind the Old Flour Mill

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