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 ==== Indigenous Weather Lore ==== ==== Indigenous Weather Lore ====
-   [[http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/]]+"Indigenous Australians have long held their own seasonal calendars based on the local sequence of natural events. To the right is a map of Australia with hyperlinks to the corresponding seasonal calendars for given regions." http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/index.shtml
  
 ==== Brambuk - Winter June to late July ==== ==== Brambuk - Winter June to late July ====
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   * Mulberry bush: 
Here we go round the Mulberry bush
Mulberry bush, Mulberry bush
Here we go round the Mulberry bush
On a cold and frosty morning.   * Mulberry bush: 
Here we go round the Mulberry bush
Mulberry bush, Mulberry bush
Here we go round the Mulberry bush
On a cold and frosty morning.
-This is the way we stamp our feet: (etc. clap our hands, blow our nose)
Stamp our feet, stamp our feet
This is the way we stamp our feet
On a cold and frosty morning. 
  
   * I hear thunder: 
I hear thunder, I hear thunder
Hark don’t you? hark don’t you?
Pitter patter raindrops, pitter patter raindrops,
I’m wet through, so are you!   * I hear thunder: 
I hear thunder, I hear thunder
Hark don’t you? hark don’t you?
Pitter patter raindrops, pitter patter raindrops,
I’m wet through, so are you!
  
   * I see blue skies, I see blue skies,
Way up high, way up high,
Hurry up the sunshine, hurry up the sunshine,
We’ll soon dry, we’ll soon dry.   * I see blue skies, I see blue skies,
Way up high, way up high,
Hurry up the sunshine, hurry up the sunshine,
We’ll soon dry, we’ll soon dry.
-Rain, rain: 
Rain, rain, go away
Sun come out so I can play
Rain, rain go and hide
Let’s have sunshine countrywide.+ 
 +  * Rain, rain: 
Rain, rain, go away
 Sun come out so I can play Rain, rain go and hide
 Let’s have sunshine countrywide.
    
   * It’s raining
: It’s raining, it’s pouring
 The old man is snoring 
He went to bed and bump his head
and he couldn’t get up in the morning.   * It’s raining
: It’s raining, it’s pouring
 The old man is snoring 
He went to bed and bump his head
and he couldn’t get up in the morning.
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