Listen! Up there.
A familiar cry in the morning air.
The song of a bird in the bush or tree,
The forest joker, laughing at me.
Is it a drongo, a broad-billed roller,
a golden whistler, a ground cuckoo shrike?
Lyrebird, scrubbird,
bowerbird, warbler, diamondbird, figbird?
Say what you like!
It’s the brown-feathered bird with the laughing
cry, the king-fisher bird of the southern sky.
The laughing jackass way up high.
The Kookaburra, the Kookaburra,
theKookaburra, the Kookaburra.
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
merry, merry king of the bush is he.
Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,
Sing your song for me.