WELCOME

Welcome

Welcome/Hello All Together Brother(s) Welcome/Hello All Together Sister(s)

Welcome/Hello Good Health

Born of Bundjalung 

VERSE 1 (Bundjalung language, Northern NSW)

Singing Singing

(Clarence's dialect of Bundjalung)

Sing Bundjalung Sing Bundjalung

Minyunbal Nganduwal language

Father Mother Sister Brother

All together Good Health

Eat Food – Lots of different food

Beach - Floating on the water

VERSE 2 (Bundjalung – mob and language)

Let’s sing as one, in Bundjalung

Language Minyunbal Nganduwal

(Yerrbilehla – singing)

In one of our first languages

So many words for family

Good health to all from you and me

All together, eat different food

Swim at the beach, love all we see 

VERSE 3 (Larrakia and Kuku Yalanji)

At Christmas time, across the land

It’s heating up it’s summer time

The seasons that have linked us all

For so long are so much more

(In Larrakia Country, NT - Bainba is the rainy season)

It’s time to pick the black plum 

For the Kuku Yalanji in FNQ it's rainy season

When the green plum is ripe

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VERSE 4

(Turrbal, Dharawal & Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung)

Red Kamala, red and green

(Meanjin is the Brisbane area of Turrbal)

(Dharawal coastal area of the Sydney basin)

(The Great Giant Eel in Dharawal)

Yam daisy in the highlands

Flowers everywhere you stand

It’s summer in Melbourne (Woi Wurrung lang.)

So the Kangaroo Apple flowers

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VERSE 5 (Noongar, palawa kani and Kaurna)

For the Noongar mob across the west (WA)

The hot, dry breezes will refresh

(The WA “Christmas tree” in Noongar)

There’s still more stories to be told

Tasmania in summertime (in palawa kani)

Common heath, birds of all kinds (palawa)

In Kaurna it’s summer (Kaurna Language)

Christmas bush in the sun (Kaurna)

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REPEAT VERSE 1 (Bundjalung)

Singing Singing

Minyunbal Nganduwal language

Sing Bundjalung Sing Bundjalung

Minyunbal Nganduwal language

Father Mother Sister Brother

All together Good Health

Eat Food – lots of different food

Beach - Floating on the water