Kookaburra Song, The

artist:Raymond Crooke

, writer:Marion Sinclair

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 {t:Kookaburra Song, The}
{artist:Raymond Crooke}
{key: C}
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKD5b8wjt00
{c: } 
[C] Kookaburra [F] sits in the [C] old gum tree, 
[C] merry, merry [Am] king of the [C] bush is he 
[F] Laugh kookaburra, [C] laugh 
Kookaburra, [C] gay your life must be 
 
[C] Kookaburra [F] sits in the [C] old gum tree, 
[C] eating all the [F] gumdrops that [C] he can see 
[F] Stop, kookaburra, [C] stop
Kookaburra, [C] save some those for me 
 
[C] Kookaburra [F] sits in the [C] old gum tree, 
[C] counting all the [Am] monkeys [C] he can see 
[F] Stop, kookaburra, [C] stop 
Kookaburra, [C] that`s not a monkey, that`s me!

[C] Kookaburra [F] sits on the [C] electric wire
[C] Jumping up and [Am] down with his [C] pants on fire
[F] Ouch kookaburra, [C] ouch 
Kookaburra, [C] hot your tail must be

[C] Kookaburra [F] sits on the [C] railroad track
[C] Better get [Am] off or [C] he'll be flat
[F] Run kookaburra, [C] run 
Kookaburra, [C] well that's the end of that!!

Song Info

Title: Kookaburra Song, The

Artist: Raymond Crooke

Writer: Marion Sinclair

Song Types: Children, Comedy

Key: C

Info: "Kookaburra" (also known by its first line: "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree") is a popular Australian nursery rhyme and round about the kookaburra. It was written by Marion Sinclair (9 October 1896 �" 15 February 1988) in 1932

Marion Sinclair was a music teacher at Toorak College, a girls' school in Melbourne she had attended as a boarder. In 1920, she began working with the school's Girl Guides company.

One Sunday morning in 1932, Sinclair had a sudden inspiration in church and dashed home to write down the words to "Kookaburra". In 1934 she entered the song into a competition run by the Girl Guides Association of Victoria, with the rights of the winning song to be sold to raise money for the purchase of a camping ground, eventually chosen as Britannia Park. The song was performed for the first time in 1934 at the annual Jamboree in Frankston, Victoria, at which the Baden-Powells, founders of the Scouting and Guiding movements, were present.

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Kookaburra Song, The

artist:Raymond Crooke

, writer:Marion Sinclair

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