It’s A Kookaburra Kind Of Christmas

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It’s A Kookaburra Kind Of Christmas
By Paul McCann

I was playing Christmas carols while writing a Christmas card

The bees were all humming around the flowers in the back yard

 Three Kookaburras came and started laughing as they do  .

Then they were joined by magpie a shrieking cockatoo

They warbled and they laughed in the heat of the midday sun .

All the birds in the gum tree seemed to be having so much fun,’

Some king parrots came and perched around the plinth near the bird bath

A few more kookaburras arrived and they began to laugh t   .

As they laughed I thought about all the Christmases  I have had  .

Back in the days of old  when I was just a wee Belfast lad

All the Kookaburras flew away and I felt all alone .

I thought about life in Australia and how the years have flown ,

It’s a crazy kind of life sometimes when Christmas comes around ,

The chorus of life changes to a completely different sound .

Kookaburra laughing and the Christmas carols we’re singing    

Little children screaming to the sound of Jingle bells ringing

There’s excitement in the air even the birds can feel it too  ,

It’s a Kookaburra kind of Christmas and I’m laughing too,