HOME AMONG THE GUMTREES   by Bob Brown            (B.Brown/W.Johnson)

I've been around the world a dozen of times or maybe more
I've seen the sights and had delights on evry foreign shore
But when my friends all ask of me that place that I adore
I tell them right away

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Give me a home among the gumtrees, with lots of plumtrees
A sheep or two, a kangaroo, a clothes line out the back
Verandah out the front, and an old rocking chair

I'll be standing in the kitchen cooking up a roast
With Vegemite on toast, just me and you, a cockatoo
And after tea we'll settle down, and melt out on the porch
And watch the possums play

There's a Safeway on the corner. and a Woolworths down the street
And a New World's just been opened where they regulate the heat
But I'd trade them all tomorrow for a simple bush retreat
Where the kookaburras call

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Some people like their houses with fences all around
Some live in their mansions, and some beneath the ground
But me, I like the bush, where the rabbits run around 
And a pumpkin vine out the back

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