Galahs

The best known of the cockatoo family They lay their eggs high up in hole in tree And they live in flocks up to a thousand sometimes two The galah alias the Rosehill cockatoo. The cash crop farmer find cause to complain The galahs come at dawn to eat his grain A tenth of this year's crop by birds destroyed His profit gone his patience has been tried. Destructive birds some have been known to say But they look beautiful in pink and gray And a flock of galahs in the morning sky A thing of beauty is a thing of joy. At dawn of day they leave their roosting trees And as they fly they pipe their melodies You hear them once you know their voice again The galahs song with you will long remain. Gregarious birds their numbers multiply And the flocks grow bigger as the years go by And angry farmer has been known to say I hate those cockatoos in pink and gray. In Australia these birds were never rare And their numbers on the increase every where And they live in flocks up to a thousand sometimes two The galah alias the Rosehill cockatoo.