Lyr Add: In the Land of Patagarang

Subject: LYR ADD: In the land of Patagarang
From: Wolfgang
Date: 29 Aug 97 - 02:00 AM

IN THE LAND OF THE PATAGARANG

by Gerry O'Beirne, 1986

In the land of Patagarang the murkies are dreaming

In the land of Patagarang they don't know who we are

In the land of Patagarang the murkies are dreaming

In the land of Patagarang we'll sail into the bay

I'm going with my peculiar

To a place of infinite space

With the mollies and punks and fluters

Buzz gloaks and star glazers

They'll turn you into a creature, if you're not strong

A man with marsupial features, on the horizon

For impersonating an Egyptian you go to the land

Of the Patagarang Patagarang

In the land of Patagarang the crow lies backwards

In the land of Patagarang the stars are upside down

God botherers pray repentance

Political and yobs

Goodbye to indipendence

Welcome to the mobs

They'll turn you into a creature, if you're not strong

A man with marsupial features, on the horizon

For impersonating an Egyptian you go to the land

To the land of Patagarang Patagarang

In the land of Patagarang the murkies are dreaming

In the land of Patagarang the stars are upside down

Sung by Patrick Street on "Irish Times"

------------- Background:

This song was inspired by 'The Fatal Shore Robert Hughes' history of the settlement in Australia with English and Irish convicts. You may notice some slang of the period here, for which we thank again to Mr. Hughes. A Patagarang is an aboriginal word for a kangaroo, and 'impersonating an Egyptian or posing as a gypsy, was a crime in the eighteen century, for which, at the whim of some bewigged Justice, you could find yourself sailing in chain for the land of Patagarang.