http://thelees.com.au/musicDiscography.php

New Years Eve we spent at the Forbes RSL (RSL's are "private" clubs with poker machines) listening and dancing to The Lees, a family of Australian musicians originally from Broken Hill, but now living in Parkes, just up the road from Forbes. As soon as they started playing I knew that they were something special. There was hardly anyone there to hear them though, although they were well known around Forbes, playing often in the Vandenberg hotel, the meet headquarters.

The father of the family, Steve Lee, told a story about a song that they were about to play. He had been a postie (mailman) for eight years in Broken Hill, delivering the mail twice a week on a 560 km route. One day he was out at a station (ranch) talking to the wife of the station owner about one of the dams (ponds) on the station, when the husband said, "Don't talk to her, mate, she wouldn't know anything about it. She's a townie."

Steve asked the woman, "Is this true?" and she replied, "Yes, it is." Steve asked, "Well, how long have you two been married." "Forty six years," was the reply.

Chorus for The Townie:

But don't be fooled by her disguise
Those city lights are in her eyes
Behind the scares of station life
There's a townie, a cocky's wife.

Check out on Google Earth or Google Maps just where Broken Hill is, and imagine a station 200 km out from there.