Australia By Name

It was an ancient land mass long before the first people to it came This is a grand old Country Australia by name Old in the age of the dinosaurs and old in the Dreamtime This land of rugged beauty that has inspired bards to rhyme Centuries ago in the warmth of the Summer in the shade of the gum trees The first Australians gathered to dance their corroborees The country they loved and lived in looks a bit different today Out there on the brown mountain their bones forever lay The home of kookaburra, emu, wallaby and roo And wombat and koala, rosella, lorikeet and cockatoo Lyrebird and silver bill magpie, magpie lark and currawong Birds from once heard and once seen that one never could get wrong It is a very old Land with many claims to fame The home of the marsupials Australia by name.