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- "The bush is not a rubbish dump"
- We should always keep it clean,
- But alas, the opposite is true
- Of many a place I’ve been
- Where foil and plastic litter the ground
- And rubbish is flung in the pool:
- It’s unforgiveable, my friend,
- It’s unforgivabloody-bull!
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- "The bush is not a rubbish dump"
- It has been said for years,
- Yet some of the sights that I have seen
- Would reduce grown men to tears,
- For to see the sacred fireplace
- With kitchen scraps stuffed full:
- It’s unforgivable, my friend,
- It’s unforgivabloody-bull !
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- How common it is to find(and how sad)
- A very beautiful place
- Where someone’s taken the liberty
- To leave it a disgrace,
- With plastic bags and sardine tins
- Despoiling a bushland jewel:
- It’s unforgivable, my friend,
- It’s unforgivabloody-bull !
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- And down beside the water’s edge
- Some morons had their fun –
- They lined their bottles on the rocks
- And smashed them one by one.
- Now doubt they thought that such a show
- Of stupidity was cool:
- Well it’s unforgivable, my friend,
- It’s unforgivabloody-bull!
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- What wretches come to see the bush,
- To breathe the fragrant air,
- To lie in the sun by a waterhole
- Then leave their rubbish there ?
- Who thinks he’s right to trash the place
- Is nothing but a fool :
- It’s unforgivable, my friend ,
- It’s unforgivabloody – bull !
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- Dear God, to he who came this way
- Who dumped his trash and fled ,
- May twenty trucks of garbage
- Tip their contents on his head ;
- For "the bush is not a rubbish dump"
- Ought hard and fast be the rule :
- It’s unforgivable , my friend ,
- It’s unforgivabloody - bull !
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- Colin Paul Gibson
- January 2000
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