[Verse 1]
Out on the plains, the brolgas are dancing
Lifting their feet like horses prancing
Up to the sun, the woodlarks go winging
Faint in the dawn light echoes their singing
[Refrain]
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!
[Verse 2]
Down where the tree ferns grow by the river
There where the waters sparkle and quiver
Deep in the gullies, bellbirds are chiming
Softly and sweetly their lyric notes rhyming
[Refrain]
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!
[Verse 3]
Friarbirds sip the nectar of flowers
Currawongs chant in wattle-tree bowers
In the blue ranges lorikeets calling
Carols of bush birds are rising and falling
[Verse 4]
Down wherе the tree ferns grow by the rivеr
There where the waters sparkle and quiver
Deep in the gullies, bellbirds are chiming
Softly and sweetly their lyric notes rhyming
[Refrain]
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!
(Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!)
[Verse 5]
Friarbirds sip the nectar of flowers
Currawongs chant in wattle-tree bowers
In the blue ranges lorikeets calling
Carols of bush birds are rising and falling
[Verse 6]
Out on the plains, the brolgas are dancing
Lifting their feet like horses prancing
Up to the sun, the woodlarks go winging
Faint in the dawn light echoes their singing
[Refrain]
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!
(Orana!) Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!
(Orana!) Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!
Out on the plains, the brolgas are dancing
Lifting their feet like horses prancing
Up to the sun, the woodlarks go winging
Faint in the dawn light echoes their singing
[Refrain]
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!
[Verse 2]
Down where the tree ferns grow by the river
There where the waters sparkle and quiver
Deep in the gullies, bellbirds are chiming
Softly and sweetly their lyric notes rhyming
[Refrain]
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!
[Verse 3]
Friarbirds sip the nectar of flowers
Currawongs chant in wattle-tree bowers
In the blue ranges lorikeets calling
Carols of bush birds are rising and falling
[Verse 4]
Down wherе the tree ferns grow by the rivеr
There where the waters sparkle and quiver
Deep in the gullies, bellbirds are chiming
Softly and sweetly their lyric notes rhyming
[Refrain]
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!
(Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!)
[Verse 5]
Friarbirds sip the nectar of flowers
Currawongs chant in wattle-tree bowers
In the blue ranges lorikeets calling
Carols of bush birds are rising and falling
[Verse 6]
Out on the plains, the brolgas are dancing
Lifting their feet like horses prancing
Up to the sun, the woodlarks go winging
Faint in the dawn light echoes their singing
[Refrain]
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!
(Orana!) Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!
(Orana!) Orana! Orana to Christmas Day!
( Colin Buchanan )
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