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Queensland born Queensland bred
Many thoughts flow through my head
The time has come to beat the drum
This colony deserves some cred!
A story told on fields of gold
Where Glasshouse Mountain views unfold
With sun and surf and Gabba turf
And Allan Border blazing bold!
Across the field – our maiden Shield
Matt the Bat – his windmills wield
With wide verandah – Cairns Kuranda
Jacaranda then revealed
A tribe of thongs in Billabongs
With Billy Thorpe and Bee Gees songs
Now Malouf's book says James can Cook
With Dickie Johnson's true blue tongs!
The backyard crew in barbeque!
There's Judith Wright and Oodgeroo
Gold Coast Indy – Dad of Bindi
Crikey it's Australia Zoo!
Great White Sharks, National Parks
Savage Gardens, Birdsville larks
Perkins' pool, Wayne Bennett's rule
With Cathy Freeman – on ya marks!
Ah here we go and hail Sir Joh
And ride the Isa Rodeo!
Where cane toads croak for Woodford folk
Declare an end to polio
Yes vaccination, Frazer's station
Railway tracks free education
City Halls and Burdekin Falls
And Yungaba for immigration
Islands, bridges, tracks and ridges
Straddie, Fraser, back deck fridges
XXXX brewin – Mickey Doohan
Parliament could hear the didges!
Currumbin's wild and Southbank's nice
Lives are saved in Paradise
The Daintree lush with Geoffrey Rush
Whitsundays adds Magnetic spice
Allan Langer, Rocky banger!
Tree of Knowledge, airplane hangar
Powderfinger, Mal Meninga
Feastin' on a mud crab sanger!
Rocket Rod, he gets the nod
Wally Lewis – demigod!
Knew every blade of Lang Park Stade
And Blue Care fought against the odds
Johnny Flynn – the great Gunsynd!
Was sailing on a Gladstone wind
Old Clem Jones – he bled maroon
Matilda winked and Mabo grinned
Regatta chains for female claims
82 - The Commonwealth Games
Our Qantas Roo got up and flew!
The Longreach Stockman's Hall Of Fame
The Belle Hotel and Cloudland fell
Will McInnes, Charles Chauvel
With flower clusters, Gympie Musters
Hugh Lunn - Q1 - Paw Paw Gel
And Yatala Pies and Noosa Tris
And gold was Madam Butterfly's
And Mango Weis and Leslie Thiess
And Kingsford Smith – he ruled the skies!
Now kids alive to do the five
A place where big pineapples thrive
The outback honours Graeme Connors
Lava tubes and lammie drives!
Hey spend a day on Moreton Bay!
SES – ICPA
Tilted trains through fields of cane
Wotif.com.au ay!
Ekka Mecca St John's spire
Tone Fitzgerald – let's enquire
Doctors flying, Dingoes trying
Old museum and Riverfire
The Bundy Bear – we're almost there!
B&S - School of the Air
On Rafter's racquet – Big Grant Hackett!
Gateway to the Great Court square
Skyrail leaf – the Barrier Reef
Brekky Creek does beer and beef
Expo crowns the Darling Downs
I'm Glad there's room for Miss Moncrieff!
With floods and spuds and stormy scuds
Dad and Dave was Mister Rudd's
Stanthorpe grapes, Panyiri crepes
And Urban tunes – there ain't no duds!
Carnarvon Gorges Bunya grange
Macadamic nuts exchange
Royal Ag signs, Koala Pines
Where none divides except the Range!
No every feather stands together
Thick and thin – through any weather
Cross the Story bridged by glory
Fastened by a friendly tether
Strengthened by a spirit crown
A pride that never lets you down
With that, I say hip hip hooray
Happy birthday Queensland town!
Rupert McCall
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