On Boat People
Omar and his family went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat.
They paid their fare to a man, it is said,
Who promised them it would float.
They all looked up at the stars above
And sang to a small sitar,
“Oh Australia! Oh Australia!
What a beautiful country you are,
What a beautiful country you are.”
When their boat ran afoul in the ocean vast
They radioed their distress,
Along came the Navy and delivered them
To a rather strange address.
They were locked away for a year and a day
In the land where the Abbott tree grows,
Until in a wood a Gillard stood
With bright red hair and a nose,
With bright red hair and a nose.
“I’m sending you to Malaysia,” she said,
“Because you jumped the queue.”
But the Abbott said, “No, that’s not fair,
I’ll send them to Nauru.”
A committee was called to sort it out
And it talked from night till noon,
While hand in hand on the edge of the sand
We danced by the light of the moon,
We danced by the light of the…
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