BOOMERANG OF FLOWERS
Music: Leigh Newton Words: Mary Philip © Leigh Newton 1983

A child is lying cradled here
beneath the slender gum
God of might has left his home
and to Australia come.
Kookaburra laughs with glee
shy koala peeps
magpie carols blissfully
as little jesus sleeps

CHORUS
What shall we give our infant king?
a boomerang of flowers
and say come back and stay with us
and be forever ours
What shall we give our infant king?
a boomerang of flowers
and say come back and stay with us
and be forever ours

One day a cross will hold him fast
and lest we should forget
above him in the sapphire sky
a cross of stars has set
but there'll be no pain for today
but peace and joy and love
beneath the slender gums he sleeps
and magpies sing above

Chorus