Name: Wombat Hymn of the Republic
Duration: P00H03M36S
Description: a song about visitors and Australia's "digger" tradition

Wombat Hymn of the Republic

from Come Hither by Hither and Yon Music

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a song about visitors and Australia's "digger" tradition

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This is the story of the womabt, he doesn't wear a suit or hat but for all that...
A model citizen and thorough, he spends each day inside his burrow
With moon he digs our lawn and drinks the dew of early dawn.
No bowerbird of deep thought he, reducto his philosophy,
The grass is green the other side, I feel an urge please step aside!

A tunnel, yes a tunnel, he'll dig a might tunnel.
He'll dig it deep he'll dig it wide, a testament to wombat pride!

A soldier cuts his trench for war, a miner sinks his shaft for ire
the Snowy Hydro engineer drills rock and blasts his way so clear
the wombat's lead we emulate for cavities reticulate.
In battle, gold or irrigation digging under pins our nation.

A tunnel, yes a tunnel, he'll dig a might tunnel.
He'll dig it deep he'll dig it wide, a testament to wombat pride!

In Queanbeyan he takes great pains to check our fence, inspect our drains.
And if a hole should go stray your man the wombat clears the way!
And when he's finished years of toil and shuffled off his mortal coil,
no fences in his paradise, the holy ground he'll idolise.

A tunnel, yes a tunnel, he'll dig a might tunnel.
He'll dig it deep he'll dig it wide, a testament to wombat pride!
He'll dig it deep he'll dig it wide, a testament to wombat pride!

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from Come Hither, released September 24, 2013
Written by Tom Jordan
Performed by Tom Jordan and Heather Jordan

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