In the wood that skirts the paddock when the sun is out he doze <br />And he stretch and rest his 'hoppers' the marsupial 'there he goes' <br />'There he goes' the English meaning for his Aboriginal name kangaroo <br />The great creature from the Dreamtime the black hunter did pursue. <br /> <br />They've been living in Australia ever since life first began <br />And they've been hopping through the bush lands perhaps since the birth of man <br />They'd been living and established unknown creatures without name <br />When Australia was unknown Land long before the black man came. <br /> <br />What a funny sight a mother as she goes on 'hop about' <br />With her 'joey' in the warm pouch and his small head sticking out <br />And as she needs to eat she must stoop and she goes into a crouch <br />And her joey too nibbles grass as he reaches from her pouch. <br /> <br />They are disliked by the farmers they eat grass meant for his sheep <br />And they jump above his fences with effortless bounding leap <br />But the kangaroo has been around since birth of first gum tree <br />And he's a pure bred Australian and belong to this Country. <br /> <br />In the wood that skirts the paddock when the sun is out he doze <br />And he stretch and rest his hoppers the marsupial 'there he goes' <br />'There he goes' the English meaning for his Aboriginal name kangaroo <br />The great creature from the Dreamtime the black hunter did pursue.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-he-goes-the-kangaroo/
