I've been
around the world a dozen times, or maybe more,
I've seen the sights and had delights on every foreign shore,
But when my friends all ask me the place that I adore,
I tell them right a way. |
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Give me a
home among the gumtrees,
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. |
I'll be
standing in the kitchen,
Cooking up a roast, with Vegemite on toast,
Just me and you, a cockatoo,
And after tea we'll settle down, beside the hitching post,
And watch the wombats play. |
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Give me a
home among the gumtrees,
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. |
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 a simple bush retreat
where kookaburras sing. |
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Give me a
home among the gumtrees,
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. |
Some
people like their houses built, with fences all around,
Others live in mansions, or in bunkers underground,
But I won't be content,
Until the day that I have found
The place I long to be. |
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Give me a
home among the gumtrees,
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. |
