The Gum Tree Is Australian

The gum tree is Australian as Aussie as can be And there's no more Australian than the eucalyptus tree They have been in Australia perhaps since life began Thousands and thousands of years before coming of man. The mountain ash the big giant in forest park stand tall He tower above all others beside him they seem small The stringybark and ironbark familiar to the eye You know them by the bark they wear the gum trees never lie. The manna gum and flowering gum all different none the same The gray gums and the scented gums so many one could name A few hundred different species of Australian gum tree And all of them belong to eucalyptus family. Man took gum seeds to Italy and to the U.S.A. And now they grow in foreign Lands thousands of miles away But the gum trees grown on foreign soil are Aussie as can be For there's no more Australian than the eucalyptus tree