true blue pride
...under this southern sky we all should adore
for this land has never burned with any war.
our life has always been one that is free
free from dictatorship...free from tyranny.
under the southe...
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Categories:
galah, celebration, patriotic, pride,
Form: Rhyme
Pending upon incumbent
...I aghast viewed the evidence..Palpable obvious formerly
Not imagable now so excrable, i felt sick deep inside; felt
Nausea as a tide.)) Stand..' I felt the need to denounce'
So I decide..To announ...
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Categories:
galah, appreciation, education, goodbye,
Form: Didactic
Keefer, the Rabid Dingo
...Once there was dingo, rabidly mad as he could be
who thought he was a Bruce of a man by how he spoke
But no man would call him their 'mate,' for you see...
he was a mongrel dog who pretended to be...
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Categories:
galah, character,
Form: Rhyme
Paid In Full
...I’ve mucked around when drinking beer like many other blokes,
who love to be involved when playing silly nonsense jokes.
It’s great to see a ‘bunny’ puzzled and completely unaware
that pranksters ...
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Categories:
galah, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Maiden Drive
...Five rings for fifty-one again and once more winning brings,
another pot of loser’s beer for throwing rubber rings.
That’s twenty-seven ‘freebies’ in a row, so by now it looks
like I’m the bloke w...
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Categories:
galah, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Uncle Arthur
...‘She’s on again - the annual campin’ trip regatta,
and we’ve got ourselves together for our plans to Wonnangatta.
The high country; you can’t beat it for the peace and quiet
unless of course some...
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Categories:
galah, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Day Near Massacre
...When we were kids, kids we were without no pain or fears,
we’d do the ‘devilish’ of things to impress our peers.
The biggest dare or bravest feat would for the pack be tried.
Lord knows now when I...
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Categories:
galah, humor,
Form: Rhyme
A Wifely Surprise
...Last Saturday it’s to the pub,
and walk inside the public bar,
where I met up with Tommy Judd,
who is at time’s a chump galah.
Tom was looking smart and slick,
in a custom tailored outfit.
T...
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Categories:
galah, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Hot Day In the City
...You’d be a galah taking a bow
To be outside in the heat now
It’s 46.2 degrees C
And if it were up to me
I know where I’d want to be
A cool ocean breeze off the sea
Sipping a long cool drink
On...
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Categories:
galah, summer, sun,
Form: Ballad
Francophiles Hate Gallophiles
...Once upon a summer’s sandwich, over in Birdgum Hollow, the one from the old kingdom, not new.
There lived two birds, one glam, a falconet, and one an Australian blue-grayish cock-eyed Cockatoo.
F...
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Categories:
galah, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Mistake
...After an hour I gave up in disgrace,
fumbling, embarrassed and too a red face,
with my girlfriends bra,
and feeling like a galah -
wish I hadn’t put it on in the first place....
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Categories:
galah, humor,
Form: Limerick
Gallantly On a Galactic Voyage
...Galactic marvel; Gallant Galahad to swimming gala.
Gallery of sirens lying galore; a sexy display.
On bed of Galax, a living Galatea, he sees Hallah.
A tactical Galago, he jumps wooing the ga...
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Categories:
galah, adventure, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Hot Pink Galah
...there once was a man from afar
who stood and held forth at the bar
but the tort he invoked was no more than a joke
in defence of the hot pink galah
now the judge who was wearing a wig
when he ...
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Categories:
galah, humor,
Form: Limerick
Sue Hickey Reminising
...Sue Hickey reminising
In the land of the Kiwi where the sun forgets 2 shine,
Sue had been cooking up some ole purple dyed cat mince,
Home staggered a boyfriend and a Drongo glassy eyed,...
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Categories:
galah, adventure,
Form: Ballad
If I Could Talk To the Aussies
...I have a couple of internet Friends in Australia
We like to joke around some, so I wrote them this,
To the tune of "Talk To The Animals" (Dr. Dolittle)
If I could talk to the Aussies
just imagine ...
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Categories:
galah, humorous, international,
Form: Light Verse
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