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Six White Boomers is an Aussie Christmas classic by Rolf Harris.

Sing Six While Boomers at an Australian theme children’s tea party or a Christmas Tea Party. The boomers are kangaroos.

Six White Boomers is great as a poem or story for an Australian classroom theme too. This Aussie Christmas Carol tells the story of six white boomers or kangaroos who helped Santa out one Christmas, and of a joey reunited with his mother.

Six White Boomers gives a uniquely Australian twist to the Northern Hemisphere White (or at least cold) Christmas.

Find out what some Australian expressions from the song mean, and a few facts about kangaroos.

Six White Boomers

Early on one Christmas Day, a Joey Kangaroo
Was far from home and lost in a great big zoo
Mummy, where’s my mummy? They’ve taken her away
We’ll help you find your mummy son. Hop on the sleigh

Up beside the bag of toys, little Joey hopped
But they hadn’t gone far when Santa stopped
Unharnessed all the reindeer and Joey wondered why
Then he heard a far off booming in the sky

Chorus

Six white boomers, snow white boomers
Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun
Six white boomers, snow white boomers
On his Australian run

Pretty soon old Santa began to feel the heat
Took his fur-lined boots off to cool his feet
Into one popped Joey, feeling quite OK
While those old man kangaroos kept pulling
on the sleigh

Joey said to Santa - Santa, what about the toys?
Aren’t you giving some to these girls and boys?
They’ve all got their presents son. We were here last night
This trip is an extra trip - Joey’s special flight

Soon the sleigh was flashing past, right over Marble Bar
Slow down there, cried Santa. It can’t be far
Come up on my lap son, and have a look around
There she is. That’s mummy, bounding up and down

Well that’s the bestest Christmas treat that Joey ever had
Curled up in mother’s pouch all snug and glad
The last they saw was Santa headed northward from the sun
The only year the boomers worked a double run

Australian Expressions from Six White Boomers Translated

• Joey - baby kangaroo
• Boomers - kangaroos
• Booming - loud noise
• Marble Bar - town in Western Australia. It claims to be Australia’s hottest town
• Old Man Kangaroo - adult male kangaroo

White kangaroos or albinos are extremely rare. Most kangaroos are reddish, light brown or grey.

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