Here In The Place

Here in the place of wallaby, echidna and gray kangaroo And emu and long billed corella and yellow tailed black cockatoo I may not have much money but i am lucky in a way In the beautiful wildlife i see every day I wake every morning to the magpie's warbling song Unlike me to this place he does belong In this place he first looked on the lamp of day And here till the day he will die he will stay And i am a stranger in this beautiful place Where to most people here mine is a stranger's face When i awake at dawn the flute of the magpie i do hear Earthly Utopia it surely does have to be near To Illowa between Koroit and Warrnambool Far south of where i was born and attended school.