13.2.4 "Tie me kangaroo down" (Rolf Harris) [TS]
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This article is from the soc.culture.australian FAQ, by Stephen Wales with numerous contributions by others.
13.2.4 "Tie me kangaroo down" (Rolf Harris) [TS]
(With wobbleboard background)
[Spoken] There is an old Australian stockman, lyin, dyin, And he gets
up onto one knee and he says...
Chorus: Tie me Kangaroo down, Sport
Tie me Kangaroo down,
Tie me Kangaroo down, Sport
Tie me Kangaroo down.
Keep me Cockatoo cool, Curl
Keep me Cockatoo cool,
Aw don't go let lettin him actin the fool, Curl
Just keep me Cockatoo cool.
All together now, Chorus:
Mind me platypus duck, Bill
Mind me platypus duck
Aw don't let him go runnin amuck, Bill
Mind me platypus duck.
All together now, Chorus:
Put me Koala back, Mac
Put me Koala back.
He lives somewhere out on the track, Mac
Just put me Koala back.
All together now, Chorus:
(I include this verse as it was in the original though I find it offensive)
Let me Abos go loose, Lou
Let me Abos go loose.
They are of no further use Lou
Let me Abos go loose.
All together now, Chorus:
Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred
Tan me hide when I'm dead.
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
And that's it hangin on the shed.
All together now, Chorus:
* Misc others
CAROL OF THE BIRDS (Australian Christmas Carol)
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1. Out on the plains the Brol-gas are danc-ing, Lift-ing their feet like
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war-hors-es pranc-ing: Up to the sun the wood-larks go wing-ing,
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Faint in the dawn__" light ech-oes their sing-ing: "O - ra - na! O -
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ra - na! O - ra - na! To Christ - mas Day.""__"
2. Down where the tree-ferns grow by the river,
There where the waters sparkle and quiver,
Deep in the gullies bell-birds are chiming,
Softly and sweetly their lyric notes rhyming:
"Orana! Orana! Orana! To Christmas Day."
3. Friar-birds sip the nectar of flowers,
Currawongs chant in wattle-tree bowers;
In the blue ranges lorikeets calling --
Carols of bush birds rising and falling:
"Orana! Orana! Orana! To Christmas Day."
[ "Orana" -- an Aboriginal word for "welcome".]
[ the brolga is a species of stork, AKA the "native companion"]
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