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Re: Kookaburra
Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 203.96.111.202
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000, at 15:00:08
In Reply To: Kookaburra posted by Ticia on Tuesday, April 18, 2000, at 13:52:29:

> The whole song is:
>
> Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree.
> Merry, merry king of the bush is he.
> Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,
> Gay your life must be.
>
> Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
> Eating all the gumdrops he can see.
> Stop, Kookaburra, stop, Kookaburra,
> Leave some there for me.
>
> Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
> Counting all the monkeys he can see.
> Wait, Kookaburra. Stop, Kookaburra.
> That's not a monkey, that's me!
>
> Ti"Now that it's STUCK in my head, it might as well be stuck in everyone else's"ci

Too late. It was STUCK in my head after just seeing the title of the previous post. Wow. My dad used to sing this to me when I was about three years old. I hadn't thought of it in years.

Brunnen-"yes, they can fly. But I'm pretty sure there's no monkeys in the Australian outback :-)"G