"(GIVE ME A) HOME AMONG THE GUM TREES"

Written by W. Johnson/B. Brown (Mushroom Music)
Reprinted by permission

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1	I've been around the world
  	A couple of times, or maybe more,
  	I've seen the sights, I've had delights
  	On ev'ry foreign shore,
  	But when my friends all ask me
  	The place that I adore,
  	I tell them right away. 
  
  CHORUS
  	Give me a home among the gum trees,
  	With lots of plum trees,
  	A sheep or two, a kangaroo.
  	A clothesline out the back,
  	Verandah out the front
  	And an old rocking chair.
  
  
  2	You can see me in the kitchen
  	Cooking up a roast,
  	Or vegemite on toast,
  	Just you and me, a cup of tea.
  	Later on, we'll settle down, 
  	And  mull up on the porch
  	And watch the possums play. 
  
  CHORUS 
  3.	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 the simple bush retreat
  	Where the kookaburras call.
  CHORUS 
  
  4	Some people like their houses
  	With fences all around,
  	Others live in mansions,
  	And some beneath the ground,
  	But me, I like the bush, you know,
  	With rabbits running round
  	And a pumpkin vine out the back. 
  CHORUS.
  CODA
  	And an old rocking chair.