Lyr Req: Wombat Stew

Subject: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Oct 21 - 02:43 PM

At the singaround today, Pelagie mentioned a song called "Wombat Stew," which she think is a horrible song. So, of course, I need to see it. Anybody got the lyrics?

Thread #21418   Message #228031
Posted By: John in Brisbane
14-May-00 - 10:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Medieval Re-enactments Song List
Subject: Medieval Re-enactments Song List

I can't find the URL again but I stumbled acrooss a site with lots of general folk lyrics, a sample of which are below. The site was devoted to those lusty types who don chain mail and broad swords and it had links to half a dozen or so similar sites. There was a zip file of 1500 lyrics which I sampled at random to locate pieces I hadn't heard of. There were lyrics which had come straight from the DT, but enough others to arouse my curiosity. What I did notice were lots of lyrics where the DT is missing tunes. I gather that lots of these songs get sung in the spare time between fighting, aleing and wenching or whatever else happens at these special events. Anyome come across these sites please? Regards, John

Wombat Song

Tune: Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire
By Mary Christmasse (Joice Brisboise)
And House Grynmoors

Wombats roasting on a bardic fire
Chimpmunks singing all the while
Hampsters flee as the Wombats they see
Cause flaming fur just ain't their style

Everybody knows
Wombats shake their head and gnash their teeth
Gnashing makes them feel all right
But once you gnash you'll be part of the stash
of Wombats roasting here tonight

The wombats came from far away
And in An Tir they said they would stay
But as you know, they've got to go
So they're roasting now and next they'll be pate.

Wombat stew you know is very good
Nibble on their little heads and feet
Wombats beware for I'll singe all your hair
There's nothin quite as good as wombat meat.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: Malcolm Storey
Date: 04 Oct 21 - 06:53 PM

Saw a sign the other day for a Rangerover meet.
Assumed it was roadkill for sale.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: GUEST,Charlie Ipcar
Date: 06 Oct 21 - 05:41 PM

Very tasteful, Joe!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Oct 21 - 06:20 PM

I don't know if this is the song Pelagie is referring to, but here's one Wombat Stew":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFb6gP7mZZo

WOMBAT STEW

Wombat stew,
Wombat stew,
Gooey, brewy,
Yummy, chewy,
Wombat Stew.

from the children's book, by Marcia K. Vaughan (Author), Pamela Lofts (Illustrator) (1986)

Another performance, another tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVkySEl-ExM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: Helen
Date: 06 Oct 21 - 08:29 PM

Wombats are protected under the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. It is an offence to harm a wombat unless a licence is obtained from the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.30 July 2019

Wombat stew is definitely not allowed.

I've only seen snow once and I've only seen a wombat in the wild once, trudging purposefully through that snow. A memorable day.

Having said that - from my environmentally friendly Aussie soap box - I think the children's book version of the song is the more likely answer for your song search because it would be better known, I think.

And as it happens, the wombat and his friends outsmart the dingo who was trying to make
Wombat Stew

"One day, on the banks of a billabong, a very clever dingo caught a wombat ... and decided to make... Wombat stew, Wombat stew, Gooey, brewy, Yummy, chewy, Wombat stew! In this classic Australian picture book, a dingo catches a wombat and wants to cook him in a stew. But all the other bush animals have a plan to save their friend. They trick the dingo into using mud, feathers, flies, bugs and gumnuts in his stew, and the result is something the dingo will never forget!"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Oct 21 - 01:32 AM

And they all lived happily ever after....except for the dingo.

And there's a very cute and happy wombat on the last page.

Cute Story.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: JennieG
Date: 07 Oct 21 - 06:42 AM

Wombats are the bestest animal ever......and Australia is the best country, because we have WOMBATS!

No, it does not mean "waste of money, brains and time"......some folk use it for an insult.....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: cnd
Date: 07 Oct 21 - 12:27 PM

Made me think of an old scout song we would sing sometimes, Roadkill Stew. Sung to the tune of Three Blind Mice.

Roadkill stew
Roadkill stew
Tastes so good
Just like it should

First you go down to the Interstate
You wait for the critter to meet its fate
You take it home and make it great
Roadkill stew
Roadkill stew

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: Helen
Date: 07 Oct 21 - 02:54 PM

I've never heard that one, JennieG.

I've heard of WOFTAM - waste of 'effing' time and money, and I've heard the eats, shoots and leaves joke.

Wombats, koalas, platypuses, kangaroos, bilbies, sugar gliders, frill neck lizards, ...the list goes on and on for why this is the best place in the world, eh??!! :-D

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: JennieG
Date: 07 Oct 21 - 05:50 PM

Helen - several years ago while travelling in Victoria we took a trip to Wilson's Promontory. Driving in we were held up by a slow-moving (very slow) car which was following a wombat; it was strolling along the road as if it was the owner - which it probably was - and it was the largest sleekest wombat I have ever seen. Its fur was very dark, nearly black, and slightly long.

Had I but known the song I could have serenaded it!

They have become a problem on Wilson's Prom because people are stupid and leave food out for them, they then break into tents for more food. Doesn't take much skill for a wombat to break into a tent.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: Helen
Date: 07 Oct 21 - 07:04 PM

Yep, like a mini bulldozer on four legs.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Oct 21 - 08:09 PM

years ago a friend was working on his old weatherboard house outside Canberra. The house had verandas & a new large deck & was on piers & he had cut his own fretwork palings (why buy them when you can cut what you want?), including enough to hide the piers. It all looked beautiful when he had completer the renovation.

The wombat who owned the land didn't like being locked out from walking under the house ...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: Helen
Date: 07 Oct 21 - 08:41 PM

That's funny Sandra. Our old weatherboard house was on piers and the local cats used to go from the one side of the house to the other as a shortcut. It didn't work out so well when I blocked off their exit because then they all went round and round in circles under the house making annoying yowling noises so I had to unblock that section. The stupid thing is that there were openings along half the length of the house but they had their habitual route and demanded to keep using it. (We fixed the problem. Knocked the old house down and built a new one on a concrete slab. Unless they want to dig a tunnel, they just have to walk around it and create a new habitual route.)

Speaking of habitual routes of local wildlife, I like those possum bridges strung above highways.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wombat Stew
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Oct 21 - 01:13 AM

On the June long weekend I normally stay with friends who have a permaculture farm. The wombat who owns the land walks under their house, under their bedroom, but she doesn't walk under the guest bedroom across the hall, so I never heard her.