kevy the big red male kangaroo
impressed the girls with a manly woo
out to set hearts on fire
wore his best bushie attire
as he blew on his didgeridoo
wally the hairy nosed wombat
was very hairy, round and fat
waddled when he walked
loudly screeched when he talked
and friends with a nosy numbat
kerry the cuddly koala bear
sat in a tree just to eat and stare
saw the swirling-coloured lights
a feral hippies delight
so-how much can a koala, bare?
kelly the laughing kookaburra
though she was grown up and matura
made a lot of ha ha
with gary the galah
in their gum tree home near mildura
emily is a fast running emu
her funny strangeness just grew and grew
amongst all the bushland folk
subject of many a joke
when her feathers started turning blue
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Jan 26 is Australia Day-to all Aussies, happy Oz day
Perhaps Justice Roberts is a just judge
But agin' the folks he must hold a grudge
Bushie is scratchin' his pate
"What a mess I did create
When I named him, did I ever misjudge!"
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved
Cobber from the bush.
We had the Rockers an the Surfies
Crazy wild buggers true,
I was walking down the street ,
An they said “what are you ?”
I said “I’m a Bushie, don’t be pushy
Or you’ll smell the gum leaves too,”
So I went a riding Nortons,
And the Trumpys, just a few. (Triumph motorbike)
Would ya persecute an rob me,
Said shelia,giving me a push,
I’d hold ya down an scruff ya ,
Said me Cobber from the bush.
Would ya live off sin of harlots,
Would ya think it bloody good,
Would ya skim a quid to start with,
“my flaming oath I would “.
Beatle long hair was a flowing,
And we’d catch em one or two,
Short back n side, just one side,
Sometimes fisticuffs, a blue.
Don Johnson
1960s when I came away from the bush in Australia to the big smoke.
craig cornish
Contest Name Talk That Way
Somebody took my teabag,
the only one I had,
Just what kind of scuzzbag,
could be that much a cad?
I only had the one, you see,
and used it 18 times
now I got the problem,
of finding something that rhymes
Oh Bag-Thief, are you from Bagdad?
is that the reason why?
You want to get even with Bushie,
and so you make me cry?
Just send me my forlorn teabag,
no questions will I ask...
It is a simple thing I seek,
I'm sure you're up to this task
and a word to my dear friends,
on my grammer, punctuation, too,
may not be up to your standards,
and from this I'll try to eschew
but remember just one thing
under the sun there's little new
it"s a take it or leave it proposition,
that's what I have to say to you!!
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