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== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
* A loop of the song plays in the "[http://www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk/s2-11.htm Art Attack]" game on the [[Defending the Earth!]] website. The audio itself originated from "Barney and Friends".
* A loop of the song plays in the ''[[Art Attack (video game)|Art Attack]]'' game on the [[Defending the Earth!]] website. The audio itself originated from {{wi|Barney & Friends}}.
* The song is strongly associated with the [[Girl Guides]], since writer Marion Sinclair originally wrote it for a Girl Guides song competition in [[Australia]]. This makes it likely that audience members Chloe's age in [[Britain]] would have recognised the song on transmission several parts of the [[English language|English]]-speaking world. The song has no particular tradition, however, in the {{w|American Girl Scouts}}, perhaps lessening the impact of the song on American audiences.
* The song is strongly associated with the [[Girl Guides]], since writer Marion Sinclair originally wrote it for a Girl Guides song competition in [[Australia]]. This makes it likely that audience members Chloe's age in [[Britain]] would have recognised the song on transmission several parts of the [[English language|English]]-speaking world. The song has no particular tradition, however, in the {{w|American Girl Scouts}}, perhaps lessening the impact of the song on American audiences.
[[Category:Songs from the real world]]
[[Category:Songs from the real world]]
[[Category:Nursery rhymes]]
[[Category:Nursery rhymes]]
[[Category:Poetry from the real world]]
[[Category:Poetry from the real world]]

Revision as of 20:33, 23 May 2020

Kookaburra

"Kookaburra" was a traditional nursery rhyme. Trish Webber sang it to calm her daughter Chloe whenever times got tough. The song's effect on Chloe subdued a monster based on a drawing of her father. (TV: Fear Her)

Trish was heard to sing, in part:

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra!
Gay your life must be

Behind the scenes

  • A loop of the song plays in the Art Attack game on the Defending the Earth! website. The audio itself originated from Barney & Friends.
  • The song is strongly associated with the Girl Guides, since writer Marion Sinclair originally wrote it for a Girl Guides song competition in Australia. This makes it likely that audience members Chloe's age in Britain would have recognised the song on transmission several parts of the English-speaking world. The song has no particular tradition, however, in the American Girl Scouts, perhaps lessening the impact of the song on American audiences.