There's a backpacker feeling homesick
Waking up on St Kilda Beach
There was a big night out at The Espy
But there are bagels on Acland Street
There's a tram rattling into the city
There's a jogger running 'round The Tan
There's a gutter that I spewed in once when I was a younger man
From commission flats in Richmond
To Prahran where the money starts
There's a dirty river running through her heart
On the Belgrave line there are business suits
Flowing out onto Flinders Street
There's a coffee brewing in Carlton
Pulling beers down at The Retreat
There's a deal going down in Braybrook
There's a dealer making killings at Crown
There's a primary school that my son went to
In the middle of Clifton Hill
From the Ranges down to Williamstown
From the bay to where it starts
There's a dirty river running through her heart
They're lining up for souva's, drunk on Brunswick Street
There's a busker at the Bourke Street Mall
They're crowding 'round a miked up didge
There's a vigil for Eurydice down at Princes Park
There's a dirty river running through her heart
They are praying at St Paul's Cathedral
And a mosque out in Noble Park
There's a scream rising out of the MCG where the AFL faithful are
Past the weary face of Weary, an ANZAC's marching through
There's a party out in Templestowe where I fell in love with you
From the treaty made by Batman
For the beautiful Birrarung Marr
There's a dirty river running through her heart
Through Kulin nation country
The Yarra is running still
My home stands on Wurundjeri Land and I know it always will
Though we've been far from Melbourne
Wherever we are
There's a dirty river running through our hearts
There's a dirty river running
Through her heart