Comments on: Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree https://shambolicliving.com/2012/05/31/kookaburra-sits-in-the-old-gum-tree/ Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:08:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: ChrystinaNoel https://shambolicliving.com/2012/05/31/kookaburra-sits-in-the-old-gum-tree/#comment-3914 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:08:17 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=2505#comment-3914 This song is officially going to be stuck in my head the rest of the night now.

]]> By: Janice D https://shambolicliving.com/2012/05/31/kookaburra-sits-in-the-old-gum-tree/#comment-3913 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 22:40:15 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=2505#comment-3913 In reply to shambolicliving.

Yeah, I can’t remember why we learned it…perhaps it was part of a project in Geography… I thought it was a sad song, am I correct? (just going on my memory of how singing it made me feel – I do not recall the words though. I think I will do some goggle-ing!) 🙂

]]> By: shambolicliving https://shambolicliving.com/2012/05/31/kookaburra-sits-in-the-old-gum-tree/#comment-3912 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:46:09 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=2505#comment-3912 In reply to Janice D.

Can’t believe you were learning that song in Canada – how funny.

]]> By: shambolicliving https://shambolicliving.com/2012/05/31/kookaburra-sits-in-the-old-gum-tree/#comment-3911 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:45:03 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=2505#comment-3911 In reply to Shelly.

The gumball tree that is so funny.

]]> By: rommel https://shambolicliving.com/2012/05/31/kookaburra-sits-in-the-old-gum-tree/#comment-3910 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:27:58 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=2505#comment-3910 I like looking at birds but they poop on my car all the time making not want to clean my car at all. 😀

]]> By: Kim https://shambolicliving.com/2012/05/31/kookaburra-sits-in-the-old-gum-tree/#comment-3909 Thu, 31 May 2012 18:04:17 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=2505#comment-3909 I also learned that song as a young child at Farmers Union Camps and had no idea until I met your brother what it really meant. The king of the bush being Australia’s bush country, and the gum tree being a eucalyptus (sp?) tree and that the Kookaburra really does sound like it laughs. One of the many favorite things I experienced while visiting your beautiful country!

]]> By: Shelly https://shambolicliving.com/2012/05/31/kookaburra-sits-in-the-old-gum-tree/#comment-3908 Thu, 31 May 2012 01:46:05 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=2505#comment-3908 Janine, I love those shots of the Kookaburra! I have some excellent shots of the Cockies that like to sit in our lemon tree and eat all of our lemons, but none of kookaburras.

]]> By: Shelly https://shambolicliving.com/2012/05/31/kookaburra-sits-in-the-old-gum-tree/#comment-3907 Thu, 31 May 2012 01:44:21 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=2505#comment-3907 In reply to Janice D.

Janice, I grew up in Canada also, and I never had any idea what a Kookaburra looked like either, but the REALLY funny thing was that I had visions of a tree laden with gumballs, because you know it was a ‘gum’ tree. 🙂

]]> By: Janice D https://shambolicliving.com/2012/05/31/kookaburra-sits-in-the-old-gum-tree/#comment-3906 Thu, 31 May 2012 00:36:58 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=2505#comment-3906 I remember learning that song – about the Kookaburra In The Gum Tree when I was in grade 5…I was very young and the words seemed to speak of a mythical creature from a distant land. Now I know what that “mythical creature” looks like! Thanks! (I’m in Canada, so to a 10-year-old, as I was at the time, Australia was a very distant land!) 🙂

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