Home Among The Gum Trees
(by W. Johnson / B. Brown)
Thanks to Clellene Lyon, who sent me this song.

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

Seen the sights I've had delights on every foreign shore

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

I tell them right away (what do we tell them?)

Chorus:

Give me a home among the gum trees, with lots of plum trees

A sheep or two, a k.....kangaroo

A clothesline out the back, veranda out the front

And an old rocking chair.

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

Or Vegemite on toast, just you and me and a cuppa tea

And later on we'll settle down, and go out on the porch

And watch the possums play.

There's a Safeway up the corner and a Woolies down the street

And a brand new place they've opened up where they regulate the heat

But I'd trade them all tomorrow for a little bush retreat

Where the kookaburras call.

Some people like their houses, with fences all around

Others live in mansions, and some beneath the ground

But me I like the bush you know with rabbits running round

And a pumpkin vine out the back.

Actions:

Gum Trees: Wag hands over head like leaves in the wind

Plum trees: Pretend to pull plums down from tree

Sheep: Circle sides of head with 1st 2 fingers like sheep horns end with or 2: 2 fingers up then

Kangaroo: bounce 1st 2 fingers of right hand like a kangaroo across in front

Clothesline: Use thumbs to show clothesline behind you

Veranda: spread hands from center palms up showing veranda

Old Rocking Chair: Rock forearms as if in chair.