Friends of the Bush : A Bush Playlet for Children single work   drama   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1945... 1945 Friends of the Bush : A Bush Playlet for Children
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King Kangaroo, Queen Emu and the other native bush fauna and flora introduce themselves. Finally, King Kangaroo introduces their 'guiding star': 'Our good old friend/ the Native Black/ heard is true to us as gold,/ Although his country has been sold.'

'The Abo' explains his state of dispossession:

I have no land, I have no home;
No hunting ground 'neath heaven's dome,
No nulla, boomerang, or spear,
But memories of my land most dear;
And of the lovely scented gums.
But where I grew, the city hums.
Poor Aborigine am I,
I've nothing left to do but die.

The play concludes with a full-cast refrain: 'He's nothing left to do but die.'

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First known date: ca. 1945
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