A Warm Day On The Gold Coast

Northern New South Wales and South Queensland referred to as the sub tropics If this be so the tropics not for me For nine months of the year these places warm Depends on how warm you like it to be. Yet you ask one who comes from a colder climate And it's more likely that he or she will say That they find the sub tropics far too warm And in such places for long spells could not stay. I've never been further north than southern Queensland Noosa Heads as far north as I can recall But I've heard it said that in Cairns the big Town in the tropics The weather there much warmer overall. The green male figbirds all day long are singing Their distinct notes have a familiar ring And lorikeets are chirping in the sunshine And it's warm for the second day of Spring. On the Gold Coast in the Queensland sub tropics The cuckoo shrike pipes on the coral tree I've heard it said that further north it's warmer If this be so the tropics not for me.