Home among the gumtrees     (midi)

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1. I've been around the world a couple of times, or maybe more,

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I've seen the sights, I've had delights on every foreign shore,

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but when my mates all ask me the place that I adore,

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I tell them right away.

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Give me a home among the gumtrees,

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with lots of plum trees, a sheep or two, a kangaroo.

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A clothes line out the back, verandah out the front,

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and an old rocking chair.

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2. You can see me in the kitchen cooking up a roast,

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or Vegemite on toast, just you and me and a cup of tea.

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And later on we'll settle down and mull up on the porch,

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and watch the possums play.

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There's a Safeway on the corner, and a Woolworth’s down the street,

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a New World's just been opened where they regulate the heat,

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but I'd trade them all tomorrow for a simple bush retreat

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where the kookaburras call.

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3. Some people like their houses with fences all around,

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others live in mansions, and some beneath the ground.

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Me, I love the bush, you know with rabbits running 'round,

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and a pumpkin vine out the back.

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+ and an old rocking chair.

(Bob Brown)