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Posted By: GUEST,Kiwi the Parakeet
15-May-25 - 12:51 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Budgie Smugglers (Holly Tannen)
Subject: Lyr Add: Budgie Smugglers
BUDGIE SMUGGLERS By Kiwi the parakeet Translated from the Budgerigar by Holly Tannen Tune: Waltzing Matilda (Words probably by ‘Banjo’ Paterson, 1894, to the tune of 'The Bold Fusilier.')
Once I was a lab tech, cataloguing arthropods With Dr. Bruce down in Wooloomooloo. Counting the legs upon a female millipede I fell asleep at a thousand and two.
So I bid g’day to Eumillipes persephone Farewell to Bruce and Wooloomooloo U. But I dream I feel them crawling in my underwear How many legs? I don’t care, do you?
Oh I drove through the bush and came upon a billabong Under the shade of a coolibah tree. There in his Speedos was Sir David Attenborough Training a crew from the BBC.
Filming the budgies, filming the budgies Who’ll come a-filming the budgies with me? And he gave me a camera and a can of Cooper’s Pale Will you come filming the budgies with me?
Hundreds of budgies, thousands of budgies Millions of budgies will be on TV. But I said, bloody hell, it’s hot and I would rather go Swim on the beaches of Waikiki.
We found the budgies, genus Melopscittacus, Flying along with a kangaroo Smuggling’s not forbidden in Leviticus Who’s going to mind if I nab a few?
With the cash and the camera I stole from David Attenborough I bought a ticket to NYC. And I sang as I boiled my raggle-taggle underwear Who’ll come a-smuggling budgies with me?
Smuggling budgies, smuggling budgies Who’ll come a-smuggling budgies with me? And I sang as I crossed the outback in my underwear Who’ll come a-smuggling budgies with me?
Up come a swagman, says I’m sick o’ shearin’ sheep And after work, bugger-all to do Cuts on me hands and earwigs in me underwear I’ll come a-smuggling budgies with you.
We drove up and netted the budgerigars They came along without a peep Then we put ‘em in the van, covered cages with our underwear So that the budgies could go to sleep.
Smuggling budgies, smuggling budgies Who’ll come a-smuggling budgies with me? And we sang as we crossed the outback in our underwear Who’ll come a-smuggling budgies with me?
Back home in Sydney, Sulphur-crested cockatoos Opening trash cans as we drove by Glad we’re not smuggling sulphur-crested cockatoos They’re bloody-minded, I don’t know why.
Chartered an aeroplane, touching down at JFK Driving to pet shops 1,2, 3 And we sang as we counted Piles of 20 dollar bills Who’ll come a-smuggling budgies with me
In New York we met a lovely Barnard girl She wanted budgies, one and two. So she said, I’ll help you sell all your budgerigars I’ll come a-smuggling budgies with you.
Smuggling budgies, smuggling budgies I’ll come a-smuggling budgies with you And she sang as she played with twenty-four budgerigars I’ll come a-smuggling budgies with you.
Oy, says the swagman, Mardi Gras in New Orleans Then on to Frisco and West LA. We sold the budgies, and they all had babies ex- ‘Cept for a few that I think were gay.
On to Hawaii, for a little r – and – r Two leapin’ larrikins on a spree And we sang as we danced with sheilas in their underwear Who’ll come a-smuggling budgies with me.
Smuggling budgies, smuggling budgies Who’ll come a-smuggling budgies with me And we sing as we cuddle sheilas in their underwear Who’ll come a-smuggling budgies with me
The millipede Eumillipes persephone was discovered in a bore-hole 200 feet below the surface in western Australia. It is colorless, eyeless, and less than half an inch wide. Though the males have no more than 818 legs, one female was found to have 1,306 legs. Textbooks stating that no millipede has as many as a thousand legs will have to be re-written. https://news.vt.edu/articles/2022/02/first-true-millipede.html Scientists speculate that E.persephone spends most of its time eating fungus.
Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos learn to open trash bins from one another.