Comments on: Laughing Kookaburra https://jason.bennee.com/blog/2013/08/laughing-kookaburra/ Benz World Photography Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 By: Jason Benz https://jason.bennee.com/blog/2013/08/laughing-kookaburra/comment-page-1/#comment-13504 Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:07:04 +0000 http://jason.bennee.com/blog/?p=5949#comment-13504 I remember that song from primary school days. Waltzing Matilda too !

]]> By: Molly Path https://jason.bennee.com/blog/2013/08/laughing-kookaburra/comment-page-1/#comment-13503 Sun, 11 Aug 2013 09:29:30 +0000 http://jason.bennee.com/blog/?p=5949#comment-13503 It brought back memories of the camp fire song we used to sing in the Girl Guides

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh Kookaburra Laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life must be

It is sung as a round or fugue in the days when “gay” had a different meaning! (there are several renderings on YouTube)

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