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.