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Thread #126263   Message #4222416
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
12-May-25 - 07:21 AM
Thread Name: songs about birds
Subject: RE: lyrcics - Songs of Australia by Stan Wakefield
oops, I found the dots & extra verse - in an article I published on the Bush Music Club blog
From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 212, August 2012 - Songs of Stan Wakefield (1906 - 1962)

The new verse was added in 2015 for use by our younger members

comment by a musician - Well, Stan Wakefield gives us experience of an interesting alternative rhyme structure:
A - A - A - B, A - A - A - B, - C - C - C - D, - C - C - C - D.

1. When summer days are long
Then comes a rowdy song
Down by the Burrawong
Fern-like and shady
High in the Kurrajong
Far up the billabong
I hear a currawong
Answer his lady.
Wattles of golden hue
Lowries of red and blue
Gleam in the morning dew
Bushlands regalia
Hark to the merry crew
King Parrot, cockatoo,
Lyrebird, that sing the true
Songs of Australia   (© Stan Wakefield)

2. Sweet tunes from violin
Banjo and mandolin
Voices now joining in
They'll never fail ya'
All 'round this wide country
People from land and sea
Singing in harmony
Songs of Australia.
Outback and city streets
Wherever strangers meet
This land beneath out feet
Forever changing
Bush Music still alive
People will always strive
For history will survive in
Songs of Australia   Verse 2 © Peter Cahill 2015