HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY... hope you all have a great day...
*starts hummming Waltzing Matilda... Tie Me Kangaroo Down... Advance Australia Fair..
ooohhhhh think I might have "Green & Gold Malaria" today.. LOL
We have what we call bush poets that write about aussie life, this is one of Rupert McCalls (Queenslander) poems about Aussie Pride.. For those who don't understand the Aussie Language there is foot notes at the end of the poem... =D ENJOY
GREEN & GOLD MALARIA
The day would soon arrive when I could not ignore the rash
I was obviously ill and so I called on Dr Nash
This standard consultation would adjudicate my fate
I walked into his surgery and gave it to him straight.
"I wonder if you might explain this allergy of mine
I get these pins and needles running up and down my spine
From there, across my body, it will suddenly extend
My neck will feel a shiver and the hairs will stand on end
And then there is the symptom that a man can only fear
A choking in the throat, and the crying of a tear"
The Dr scratched his melon with a rather worried look
His furrow brow suggested that the news to come was crook
"What is it Doc?" I motioned "Have I got a rare disease?
I'm man enough to cop it sweet so give it to me please"
"I'm not too sure" He answered in a puzzled kind of way
You've got some kind of fever but it's hard for me to say
When is it that you feel this most peculiar condition?"
I thought for just a moment then I gave him my position
"I get it when I'm standing in an Anzac Day parade
I get it when the anthem of our native land is played
I get it when Meninga makes a Kiwiw-crunching run
And when Border grits his teeth to score a really gutsy ton
I got it back in '91 when Farr-Jone held the cup
And I got it when Japan was stormed by "Better Loosen Up"
I get it when the Banjo takes me down the Snowy River
And Matilda sends me waltzing with a billy boiling shiver
It hit me hard when Sydney was awarded with the Games
And I get it when I see our farmers fighting for their names
It flattened me when Bertrand raised the boxing kangaroo
And when Perkins smashed the record, well, the rashes were true blue
So tell me Doc" I questioned "Am I really gonna die?"
He broke into a smile before he looked me in the eye
As he fumbled with his stethoscope and pushed it out of reach
He wiped away a tear and then he gave this sirring speech:
"From the beaches here in Queensland to the sweeping shores of Broome
On the harbour banks of Sydney where the waratah's in bloom
From Uluru at sunset to the might Tasman Sea
In the Adelaide cathederals, at the roaring MCG
From The Great Australian Bight up to the Gulf of Carpentaria
The medical profession call it "GREEN AND GOLD MALARIA"
The rash that you've contracted here is "good old Aussie pride"
I'm afraid that you were born with it and one thing is for sure
You'll die with it young man because there isn't any cure...........
"Melon = Head; Crook = Sick; Anzac Day = acknowledging the war vetrans;
Meninga = Mal Meninga was a great Queensland Rugby League player;
Kiwi = New Zealand; Border = Alan Border was a great Queensland Cricketer Captain of Australia; Farr-Jones = Nick Farr-Jones great Queensland Captain of Rugby Union player
Better Loosen Up = Is a Melbourne Cup winner (Horse race that stops all of Australia for 5 mins); Banjo = Banjo Patterson great Australian poet; Billy boiling = a pot of boiling water on an open fire; Bertrand = John Bertrand Captain who won America's Cup;
Perkins = Kieren Perkins Australian Champion Swimmer......"
*starts hummming Waltzing Matilda... Tie Me Kangaroo Down... Advance Australia Fair..
ooohhhhh think I might have "Green & Gold Malaria" today.. LOL
We have what we call bush poets that write about aussie life, this is one of Rupert McCalls (Queenslander) poems about Aussie Pride.. For those who don't understand the Aussie Language there is foot notes at the end of the poem... =D ENJOY
GREEN & GOLD MALARIA
The day would soon arrive when I could not ignore the rash
I was obviously ill and so I called on Dr Nash
This standard consultation would adjudicate my fate
I walked into his surgery and gave it to him straight.
"I wonder if you might explain this allergy of mine
I get these pins and needles running up and down my spine
From there, across my body, it will suddenly extend
My neck will feel a shiver and the hairs will stand on end
And then there is the symptom that a man can only fear
A choking in the throat, and the crying of a tear"
The Dr scratched his melon with a rather worried look
His furrow brow suggested that the news to come was crook
"What is it Doc?" I motioned "Have I got a rare disease?
I'm man enough to cop it sweet so give it to me please"
"I'm not too sure" He answered in a puzzled kind of way
You've got some kind of fever but it's hard for me to say
When is it that you feel this most peculiar condition?"
I thought for just a moment then I gave him my position
"I get it when I'm standing in an Anzac Day parade
I get it when the anthem of our native land is played
I get it when Meninga makes a Kiwiw-crunching run
And when Border grits his teeth to score a really gutsy ton
I got it back in '91 when Farr-Jone held the cup
And I got it when Japan was stormed by "Better Loosen Up"
I get it when the Banjo takes me down the Snowy River
And Matilda sends me waltzing with a billy boiling shiver
It hit me hard when Sydney was awarded with the Games
And I get it when I see our farmers fighting for their names
It flattened me when Bertrand raised the boxing kangaroo
And when Perkins smashed the record, well, the rashes were true blue
So tell me Doc" I questioned "Am I really gonna die?"
He broke into a smile before he looked me in the eye
As he fumbled with his stethoscope and pushed it out of reach
He wiped away a tear and then he gave this sirring speech:
"From the beaches here in Queensland to the sweeping shores of Broome
On the harbour banks of Sydney where the waratah's in bloom
From Uluru at sunset to the might Tasman Sea
In the Adelaide cathederals, at the roaring MCG
From The Great Australian Bight up to the Gulf of Carpentaria
The medical profession call it "GREEN AND GOLD MALARIA"
The rash that you've contracted here is "good old Aussie pride"
I'm afraid that you were born with it and one thing is for sure
You'll die with it young man because there isn't any cure...........
"Melon = Head; Crook = Sick; Anzac Day = acknowledging the war vetrans;
Meninga = Mal Meninga was a great Queensland Rugby League player;
Kiwi = New Zealand; Border = Alan Border was a great Queensland Cricketer Captain of Australia; Farr-Jones = Nick Farr-Jones great Queensland Captain of Rugby Union player
Better Loosen Up = Is a Melbourne Cup winner (Horse race that stops all of Australia for 5 mins); Banjo = Banjo Patterson great Australian poet; Billy boiling = a pot of boiling water on an open fire; Bertrand = John Bertrand Captain who won America's Cup;
Perkins = Kieren Perkins Australian Champion Swimmer......"