Christmas in Australia

Hello there in the Old World where …

 

Traditional Jingle Bells

Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh


No, this is not on in Australia. It is blistery hot and we look for shady places to stay, we jump into the swimming pool or a waterhole to cool down. Christmas time is also party time, we meet friends and family and have that great Aussie BBQ (grill) in the backyard. – And this is the …


Australian Jingle Bells

Dashing through the bush

In a rusty Holden Ute (small delivery truck)

Kicking up the dust

Esky (cooling box) in the boot

Kelpie (dog) by my side

Singing Christmas songs

It’s summer time and I am in

My singlet (garment under the shirt), shorts and thongs (flip flops)


Chorus

Oh, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells

Jingle all the way

Christmas in Australia

On a scorching summer’s day

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells

Christmas time is beaut (beautiful)

Oh what fun it is to ride

In a rusty Holden Ute


Engine’s getting hot

Dodge the kangaroos

Swaggy (tramp) climbs aboard

He is welcome too

All the family is there

Sitting by the pool

Christmas day, the Aussie way

By the barbecue!


Come the afternoon

Grandpa has a doze

The kids and uncle Bruce

Are swimming in their clothes

The time comes round to go

We take a family snap (picture)

Then pack the car and all shoot through

Before the washing up

 

-> Link to another Australian version of this song



Six white Boomers (large male kangaroos)

Did you know that Santa unharnesses his reindeers on his Australian run?

Six white Boomers, snow-white boomers are racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun on his Australian run.

Where I live – in North Queensland – Christmas time is also the beginning of the storm season – with heavy monsoonal storms just like cyclones and wide spread flooding. The question we all bear in mind: Do we still have a roof over our heads after this season?


Santa and his six white Boomers never made it into Darwin

On Christmas Eve 1974 a warning sounded out on all the broadcasting stations. A great storm was nearabout.

The boys and girls all sleeping there. Tomorrow was their day. The Mums and Dads all praying that the storm would blow away.

Santa never made it into Darwin. Disaster struck at dawn on Christmas Day. A big wind came and blew the town away.

Australia was shocked and saddened as the news came through. Darwin was devastated by Cyclone “Tracey”.

Also it is over 30 years ago when it happened and many more cyclones hit the country since – Christmas and “Tracy” is synonymous for us.




Aussie Christmas
Merry Christmas
BBQ - on Christmas Eve...
Carols at the Beach
Party time
Christmas by the pool
Cyclone Tracy 1974
Cyclone Tracy 1974

Dear Readers

I would like to finish my Christmas story with John Lennon’s Christmas Song “War is Over” – I just love it.

All the very best from

Ursula Simak


So this is Christmas

And what have you done

Another year over

And a new one just begun

And so this is Christmas

I hope you have fun

The near and the dear one

The old and the young


A very merry Christmas

And a happy New Year

Let’s hope it’s a good one

Without any fear

And so this is Christmas

For weak and for strong

For rich and the poor ones

The world is so wrong


And so happy Christmas

For black and for white

For yellow and red ones

Let’s stop all the fight


A very merry Christmas

And a happy New Year

Let’s hope it’s a good one

Without any fear

And so this is Christmas

And what have we done

Another year over

And a new one just begun


And so this is Christmas

I hope you have fun

The near and the dear one

The old and the young

A very merry Christmas

And a happy New Year

Let’s hope it’s a good one

Without any fear

War is over

If you want it

War is over

Now …