Australia The Land Of

Australia the Land of the Wombat and roo Corella and sulphur crested and Black cockatoo, Wallaby, koala, emu and bandicoot And echidna who in the ground for insects root. It's many species of beautiful rosellas and lorikeets make for a pretty sight The birds of Australia an ornithologists delight The thornbills, wrens, pardalotes, honeyeaters and the gray and pied currawong And the shrike thrush who has such a beautiful song. Kookaburras, cassowary and butcherbirds and the magpies who in breeding Season sing day and night How lovely to hear them pipe in the moonlight, Willy wagtail the best known of the fantails and whipbird with the strange call And superb lyrebird the greatest mimic of all. Platypus the water dwelling egg laying mammal stranger not to be found And megapodes who lay their eggs in a huge leafy mound Where else in the World could such creatures one see And they all are as Aussie as Aussie can be. It's Indigenous People the World's oldest known Race The roots of their history far too old to trace In Summer in the Dreamtime they had their Corroborees Out of the warmth of the sun in the shade of the trees. A huge Country of temperate and rainforests to lands flat and brown Of the empty outback miles from the nearest town Australia the Land surrounded by sea The home of pittosporum and wattle and eucalypt tree.