The Pee Wees Poem by Francis Duggan

The pee wees are Australians as Aussie as can be
In Town parks and country paddocks they sing pee wee pee wee
With the colours of the magpie many know them as magpie lark
Familiar black and white birds even in the City park
They build a cup shaped nest of mud on fork of branch of tree
Familiar birds to everyone familiar birds to me
some even call them mudlark but what is in a name
When pee wee, magpie lark and mudlark are one and of the same,
They are fair dinkum Aussies to Australia they belong
And were I a poet of Nature I would pen for them a song
To be sung around the big Land in country pubs and night clubs of City and Town
Of the black and white Australians well worthy of bird renown
In Townparks and country paddocks them one often hear and see
Well known and well loved Australians who sing pee wee pee wee.