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Gumboots, they are wonderful, gumboots, they are swell
'coz they keep out the water and they keep in the smell.
And when you’re sittin’ round at home, you can always tell
When one of the Trevs has taken off his gumboots.
Chorus:
If it weren’t for your gumboots, where would ya be?
You’d be in the hospital or infirmary
'coz you would have a dose of the 'flu, or even pleurisy
If ya didn’t have yer feet in yer gumboots.
Now there’s rugby boots and racing boots and boots for drinkin’ rum.
But the only boots I’mnever without are the ones that start with “gum”.
I’ve got short ones and long ones and some up tome belt.
I’mnever dressed till I’ve got onme gumboots.
Chorus
Whenever I sing at the opera, my gumboots are amust.
They helpme hit the high notes, and protect me feet fromdust.
They keep the water well away, some voice won’t get no rust.
You will not never seeme without me gumboots.
Chorus
NowRobMuldoon and Rowling, they haven’t made a hit.
They’re ruining the countrymore than just a bit.
If they keep on the way they’re going, we’ll all be in s***.
So you’d better get yer feet up yer gumboots.
Originally performed In the 1970s by NZ comedian John Clarke, this
popular song was a remake of Billy Connolly’s ‘Welly Boot Song’, which
Connolly had in turn created by modifying the old song, ‘The Work of
the Weavers’.
Clarke captured the character of the old-fashioned Kiwi ‘man of the
land’ in his alter-ego Fred Dagg, and his clever ditty is still well known,
sung in a ‘blokey’ style with a (shamefully) accurate NZ accent. Clarke
spent most of his professional life in Australia as his prospects in NZ
were limited, but Fred Dagg, and especially this song, are very fondly
remembered.
PENGUIN PETE
Painting by Krystal Lynn
‘THE FARMER’SWIFE’
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‘PENGUIN PETE’ print,
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‘THE FARMER’SWIFE’
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