Kookaburra Song, The

artist:Raymond Crooke

, writer:Marion Sinclair

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Title: Kookaburra Song, The

Artist: Raymond Crooke

Writer: Marion Sinclair

Song Types: Children, Comedy

Key: C

Info: "Kookaburra" (also known by its first line: "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree") is a popular Australian nursery rhyme and round about the kookaburra. It was written by Marion Sinclair (9 October 1896 �" 15 February 1988) in 1932

Marion Sinclair was a music teacher at Toorak College, a girls' school in Melbourne she had attended as a boarder. In 1920, she began working with the school's Girl Guides company.

One Sunday morning in 1932, Sinclair had a sudden inspiration in church and dashed home to write down the words to "Kookaburra". In 1934 she entered the song into a competition run by the Girl Guides Association of Victoria, with the rights of the winning song to be sold to raise money for the purchase of a camping ground, eventually chosen as Britannia Park. The song was performed for the first time in 1934 at the annual Jamboree in Frankston, Victoria, at which the Baden-Powells, founders of the Scouting and Guiding movements, were present.

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Kookaburra Song, The

artist:Raymond Crooke

, writer:Marion Sinclair

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