It's a late sleepless night in Texas so you get my bits on this song.
I pass myself off as a folksinger of American, Irish, Scottish and
Canadian songs and I cover a fair enough amount from each country for
the claim to be true. In 2006 I got the bright idea of thinking that it would only be a good idea to include Australia in the group so I went out and searched locally and found an album titled, "Big Aussie
Album," by a guy named Lazy Harry.

Now, I don't know much about Australia and even less about Lazy Harry,
but off of the album I've chosen to work up, "Where The Dog Sits On The Tuckerbox," "Redback On The Toilet Seat," "I Still Call Australia Home," "Man From Snowy River," and yes, "Home Among The Gum Trees." I already do "Waltzin' Matilda" because of requests for it in pubs and such. I have also found that around St. Patrick's Day - when we do a lot of "non-Irish" Irish gigs - the, "Road To Gundagai" fits in quite well in the middle of "It's A Long Way To Tipperary," and it gives me an opportuninty to speak a bit about the historical relationship between Australia and Ireland.

I grew up in Detroit, Michigan but didn't realize until well into adulthood that I am a country boy at heart and can very much relate
to, "Home Among The Gum Trees," and I for one do not infer from the song that that's the way Aussies are. I can believe that the song holds the feelings of it's author or someone he knew but one certainly cannot expand that to gain some sort of insight as to what Australians are about. Hey, you can have your big city and all it's
trappings;...now where did I put that Colorado map? It was just here a minute ago,...I wonder if Murphy took it,...well,...it's gotta be..