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Kookaburra Jamboree

from Music Box Orphans by John Tabacco

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Words and Music © 1988 by Dennis Massa

This song was originally recorded on an EP I co-produced with Chris Pati for singer songwriter Dennis Massa called "Booper Ba'Nooper". Though Dennis did write the song, I insinuated the middle section chords and thus took it out of the "childrens" category for a brief moment. Pardon me. As it were - I always loved the tune and one day I found myself singing and playing it with an acoustic guitar. I knew all the changes and the lyrics by golly, so I figured I'd take advantage of my musical memory and just re-record it. The song was always on my bucket list of tunes I'd love to sing, so out the blue I drummed up this arrangement (very similar to the original) rather quickly to satisfy my musical appetite.

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Kookaburra Jamboree

The kookaburra bird in the coolabah tree
Watching Captain Kangeroo on an DVD
Wants to know can ya go to a koo kookaburra jamboree

You’ll go higher than kite on a flying trapeze
hanging upside down with the chimpanzees
Go ahead flip your pip at the a koo - kookaburra jamboree

We’ll chew blackjack bubble gum and crackers and cheese
With the jumpin kangaroos and aborigines
Going ish on a fish to the koo - kookaburra jamboree

We can take you far away
To the land out back where the alligators play
Where the natives say have a good day mate
Can you sail away on this green eyed whale
Come on let’s celebrate in the land down under

You can jump up and down on an alligator’s tail
And we’ll go for a sail on a green eye’d whale
Make a splash at the bash of the koo - kookaburra jamboree

The kookaburra bird in the koolabah tree
Watching Captain Kangeroo on an DVD
Wants to know can ya go to a koo - kookaburra jamboree

Kookaburra, Kookaburra jamboree
Kookaburra, Kookaburra jamboree
Kookaburra, Kookaburra jamboree
Kookaburra, Kookaburra jamboree

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from Music Box Orphans, released July 24, 2016
JT : Vocals, Guitar, Programming, Middle section
Recorded at Suburban Hermit Studios II, Stony Brook, NY

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John Tabacco Stony Brook, New York

John Tabacco is a composer, singer-songwriter, producer, recording engineer, and visual artist.

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco’s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined.

For more info : www.johntabacco.net
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