The Colours of Australia

[zondrae]

Hi all,

Just by way of something totally different, I thought I'd post a song by Enda Kenny. This Irish/Australian lives in Melbourne and has done for 20 years. He shows that he has become a dinky die Aussie by some of the absolutely beautiful songs he writes about Australia. If you get a chance to see him perform don't miss it. He also does some really funny stuff and some Irish based songs. I never miss him when he is at the Folk Festivals I go to. He has recorded 5 CDs and has a website too. (do yourself a favour)

Colours of Australia. (a song)
By Enda Kenny

It’s a Cape Tribulation pastel sunrise
Whitsundays turquoise bay
Mustard yellow wattle or the bottlebrushes red
it’s the rain that falls from skies of brolga grey.
The creamy coloured steam of Isas chimneys
the eucalyptus of dusty green and grey
No brush could ever paint its colours in a lifetime
The colours of Australia today

It’s the haunted blackened embers of a bushfire
The orange of a field of burning cane
The green that turns to gold out on the wheat field
The pink and grey galah out on the plain.
It’s a thousand different shades of Mallee sunset
it’s colours that are never seen by day
The fish out on the reef, living coral beneath
The colours of Australia today.

It’s the rusty powdered ochre of the Dreamtime
Snow white Franklin River running wild
The lorikeet with colours of the rainbow
that looks like it’s been painted by a child.
It’s a jaundiced yellow river full of topsoil
when its trees have all been taken away
we’re paying for the past, all the colours fading fast
The colours of Australia today.

[therese]

yes, he has some wonderful songs zondrae.  we've seen him a few times up at wintermoon.

(actually we were waiting for a lady to come on stage, lol  thinking edna)

[James]

Though I have just found this piece Zondrae I am glad you put it there it was a first class poen and as you say colourfull James