About That Kangaroo

As a young child, I lived in a home where there was little to no music. My mother was hearing impaired, and my father was painfully tone deaf.

Then one day my father and I went fishing. As we were driving to a favorite fishing site, my father turned on the radio.

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Suddenly a novelty song that was popular at that time came on.

“Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport.”

I listened, transfixed.

It was in that moment that I discovered music.

From that moment on I began listening to the radio, and eventually got a record player and began acquiring records.

Later, when I learned how to play guitar, I learned that song. It was one of the first songs I performed back in my coffee house days.

Yeah, I know the man behind the song, Rolf Harris, later ran afoul of the law for sexually-related offences, was convicted, and went to prison. I also know the original version of the song contained a lyric that racially incentive. But that verse got eliminated, and I certainly don’t include it.

But hey, the song remains. And I will continue to perform it.

Even if they tan me hide.

Pax et bonum