Re: birding-aus Stunned as he cross checks his native tongue?

[Peter Pfeiffer <>]

At 03:28 PM 12/16/99 -0800, you wrote:
>By jove, he's got it?
>He's really got it?
>
>David McDonald <> wrote:
>
>I asked the question: what is a 'colly-bird' in the
>context of the traditional English song 'The Twelve
>Days of Christmas':
>
>'On the  fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to
>me four colly-birds, three French hens, two turtle
>doves and a partridge in a pear tree.'
>
>The list and I received a range of responses,
>including this gem: 'A colly bird is one that perches
>on cauliflowers', 
>
>Don't have to guess? or do we? where that one came
>from? South Australia perhaps? hahahahaha
>
>

All this talk about colly birds. Does any-one have the words to the 'real'
version ( the aussie version ) that ends with and a Kookaburra in a Gum Tree. 

Cheers,
        Peter.



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