Music and lyrics by Richie Kavanagh
We met in a pub just outside a Perth,
You looked so beautiful in your short skirt.
Your skin was as brown as our barn door,
Such beauty in a woman I nar seen before.
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Whack-a-li-lu, A whack-a-li-lu,
I went to Australia it was there I found you.
Says you now me darling now what’ll we do?
Says I we’ll start playing with your didgeridoo.
One day ya brought me down right to the seaside,
I took off me shirt an’ your eyes opened wide.
Oh Johnny, oh Johnny your skin is so white,
In Ireland do never ever see the sunlight?
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“A quar nice girl Johnny”.
“Ah, they call em Sheilas in Australia lad”.
Says I, Will ya marry me? Says you theres no rush.
You’ll have ta ask me father, he lives in the bush.
An Aborigine man, he has rules of his own.
But he’d rather me marry, than ta be on me own.
Well I asked your father, could I have your hand.
He said a white man, the job it is grand.
Love an respect her, for the rest of your life.
An’ always be proud, that she’s your little wife.
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Whack-a-li-lu, A whack-a-li-lu,
I went to Australia, it was there I found you.
Says you now me darling what’ll we do,
Says I we’ll start playing with your didgeridoo.
Whack-a-whack-a-whack-a-whack-a-li-lu
I went ta Australia it was there I found you.
Says you now me darling what will we do?
Says I we’ll start playing with your didgeridoo.
“Where is she now Johnny?”
“She’s gone lad, she’s gone, she gone,
Ah she’s gone looking for her boomerang, that didn’t came back!”