Aaak! only 25 more days until Christmas.  So in preparation I thought I would share with everyone The Australian version of Jingle Bells.  Maybe my Australian readers would like to print this out and insert it into their Christmas cards.  For everyone else reading this I hope you get a kick out of it:

Australian Version of Jingle Bells

Dashing through the bush, in a rusty Holden Ute
Kicking up the dust, Esky in the boot
Kelpie by my side, singing Christmas songs
It’s summer time and I am in
My singlet, shorts & thongs

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!
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

Engine’s getting hot, we dodge the kangaroos
The Swaggy climbs aboard, he is welcome too
All the family’s there, sitting by the pool
Christmas day, the Aussie way
By the barbeque!

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!
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

Come the afternoon, Grandpa has a doze
The kids and uncle Bruce
are swimming in their clothes
The time comes around to go
we take the family snap
pack the car and all shoot through
Before the washing up

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!
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

(Colin Buchanan)