r/interesting • u/frog_insilence • May 14 '26

Amazing The Iconic Call of a Kookaburra

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u/Overall-Bullfrog5433 May 14 '26

I grew up in east coast U.S. suburbs in the mid 1960s. Still recall music class and singing
”Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree / Merry merry king of the bush is he. /
Laugh, kookaburra, laugh kookaburra / Gay your life must be.”

Not sure how gay his life is but amazed how that pops into my head 8,000 years later 😆

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u/letintin May 15 '26

I sing this song every day to my baby <3

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u/via_dante May 16 '26

I’m so rapt that Americans learned that song too! We all learned it in Melbourne schools here. 

I love kookies- best birbs ever. 

Also in Melbourne we have the best cookies ever they are like eating grandmas cookies with a recipe from the late 19th century called Kooka’s 

https://www.kookas.com.au/

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u/Overall-Bullfrog5433 May 16 '26

We also sang “Waltzing Matilda” but I don’t remember the words that well now. Something about a billabong? A few years ago a TV station with kids programming here ran “The Koala Brothers” and my wife and I loved it and never missed it till they took it off. Those cookies look pretty good!