Ti Tree School

Ti Tree School Songs and Chords
Music Outback2003-2008

Contents:

Index
123 Game Song
3 Tall Tigers
11 Ways to Spell “oo"
Angenty, Our Homeland
…
Angkety anengkerr-akert
Baby Animals
Ben’s Song
Blueback Song
Bubblemouth
Bush Tucker Song
Eagle-Angel
Farm Concert
Every Morning
For Life
Get on a Natural High
Going Home
Hot Day
Intang-warn Ntyem
Juka Manu Jira
Kid Rock Song
Kurlu-ju Ngurrju
Kwer Aherr
Lehman
Leo the Late Bloomer
Little Bat
Lonely Boy
Lonely
Loopy Louie
Lterrk Nwern Anetyenheng
Mwerr Anthwerr
Ngaliparlipa Warlalja Nyampurla
Nyiyaku Karlipa Yanirni
Nyinanjaku (Stay Really Straight)
Oh Yeah
One More Song
On the Weekend
Rain Song
Rainy Day
Rosie the Hen
Runaway song
Santa Song
School’s Great!
Seven Pelthara Sisters
Singing in Ti Tree
Swimming Song
Swing
Titch
Tyerrty Atyenh Map
Warlu - Fire Song
We All Need Food
We All Won
We come to school everyday
Welcome
Wenh-Apatherram Ntwang? (Anmatyerr Skin Name Song)
…
Yani-rlipa Wirlinyi
Yapa kalalu nyinaja nyurrwiyi
Yoyo/Yuwa

Angenty, Our Homeland
(Anmatyerr language)
Written by: April Campbell & ‘Music Outback Education’ - Seini ‘SistaNative’ Taumoepeau & Mal Webb

I’m standing on a dusty road

EmD

Watching the beautiful sun going down
C

Wondering what our Grandfather’s

AmG

Left behind for us

There is some knowledge passed on to our Elders
DG

Like the songs and stories from our Dreaming

AmG/B

Dry spinifex burning across the dusty desert
CEm

Wild bushfire lighting up the night sky
CD

Wild bushfire lighting up the night sky
Chorus:

AmEm

We’ve never been taught about our country
AmEm

Our Grandfather’s gone forever
AmEm

We are all from Angenty, Our Homeland
DC

Mer tyengenh, Angenty, Our Homeland

DCAmD

Mer tyengenh, Mwerr anthwerr, Mer tyengenh

Verse 2:

I’m standing in Our Homeland

EmD

Watching the Blue Mountains in distance
C

Thinking of the footprints

AmG

He has left behind for us

Remember singing birds in the waterholes

Reminds us of our Grandfather’s spirit
AmG/B

Beautiful sunset going down casting long shadows
CEm

Reminds us of our Dreaming.

Reminds us of our Dreaming
Bridge:

We are proud to take on our

Grandfather’s knowledge
FG

Growing old and passing wisdom to our children

CBb

This is our country, this is where I come from
C

No one can take it away.

BbCD

We feel proud and strong

Chorus: (as above)

Angkety anengkerr-akert

(Stories of our Ancestry)

in Anmatyerr & English

Lyrics by: April Campbell & Music Outback - Seini 'SistaNative' Taumoepeau

Music by: Music Outback - Steve Berry, Seini 'SistaNative' Taumoepeau, Mal Webb

Chorus 1

Paint our skin

While Elders sing

Stories of our Ancestry

Arlkeny tyelk-warn

Ampwang map alyelhem

Sharing stories of our Ancestry

Angkety anengkerr-akert

Verse 1

From our Grandmothers

for many years

they told us stories

drawing on the red sand

We paint our bodies

with the stories of our land

connect us to our Country

through our Dreaming tracks

Verse 2

Nwern-kenh nyany

ngkwey anthwerr

iletyart angkety-map

ahelh-warn

Nwern arlkeny-wem

anengkerr-akert

Mer nwern-kenh

Mer antwerrkem

Bridge

Moonlight shadow

Painted bodies

shine through the open flames

A cold wind blows

like a shadow walking

the Spirits of the Dreamtime

move through the campfire light

Chorus 1

Verse 3

For our children

the firelight is burning

Spirits guide them dancing

as clapsticks beat

Nwern-kenh kwer map

rntwemarl

inang arrken anyenem

mwerr anthwerr

Bridge

Chorus 2

Dance our skin

While Elders sing

Stories of our Ancestry

Arlkeny-akert

Ampwang map alyelhem

Sharing stories of our Ancestry

Chorus 1

Outro

Angkety anengkerr-akert

Baby Animals
(Ti Tree Junior Class 2007 and ‘Music Outback Foundation’ – Steve Berry & Mal Webb)

A baby Dog is a puppy

A baby Cow is a calf

A baby Cat is a kitten

A baby Goat is a kid

(Chorus)

Animals, Baby animals

That’s what we call baby animals

Animals, Baby Animals

They all have different names

A baby Pig is a piglet

A baby Bird is a chick

A baby Duck is a duckling

A baby Sheep is a lamb

A baby Frog is a tadpole

A baby Horse is a foal

A baby Butterfly is a caterpillar

A baby Kangaroo is a joey

Ben’s Song

Written by: Secondary class, 2005

Music Outback Education: Seini ‘SistaNative’ Taumoepeau & Mal Webb.

Chorus

GEm

Ben, Oh Goodbye Ben

You’re a funny man, a teacher

And a good friend

Always playing jokes

Just like us mob tease you know

Come back and visit

You’re always welcome here, you know

G Em

Ah Oooh Oo Oo Oooh

Verse

AmEm

Camping out in the school yard

Sitting around the campfire

EmAm

Sharing stories, playing guitar

We slept under the stars

Blueback
Written by: Junior Secondary class, 2005; Zania Liddle, Music Outback
Education: Seini ‘SistaNative’ Taumoepeau & Mal Webb.

Intro: [Em Em7 Em6 Emb6]x3

[Em Bb Am G]
[Em(like intro)] Oh yeah x4
[Em Bb Am G]

Verse:
[Em]Big huge Groper Fish
Massive pegs of teeth
Big as a car
Swimming like a sea snake
[Bb]Slow [Am]like the [G]titanic[Em]
[Em]Rocks, Sea weed, Under the sea
Looking for Abalone
He tore it apart
With his teeth
Diving [Bb]deep [Am]into [G]the [Em]darkness
Chorus:
[A]Oh yeah
[C]Blueback’s on his [Em]way
[A]He wants to eat [C]everything
The [Bb]biggest [Am]in [G]the bay [Em]
[Em]He’s the biggest (he’s the biggest)
He’s the biggest (he’s the biggest)
He’s the [Bb]biggest [Am]in [G]the bay [Em]

Body Song

Written by: Seraphina Presley-Haines & ‘Music Outback Education’ –Jacqueline Freeman & Mal Webb

(Warlpiri language)

Palka karlipa mardarni

Jurru-ngku marnpika

Milpa-ngku karna-nyanyi

Mulyu-ngku karna parntinyanyi

Lirra-ngku karna ngarni manu wangka

Chorus:

Nyampuju waninja

Nyampuju jija

Nyampuju waku

Nyampuju rduku-rduku

Kitikiti-ngki marnipika

Mardirdiji-ngki pakaka

Yartipi yirririya

Kujalu miyalu marnpika

Wanarri, mirdi, luku manu wirliya

(Anmatyerr language)

Mpurrka nurna nyinem

Kapurt-a Anpelhang

Anngel-a tha retjiny-eh

Lhangel-a tha ntjernemalah

Arraketel tha alkwem an angkem

Chorus:

Nhenhan-eh ahenty

Nhenhan-eh pwerlap

Nhenhan-eh mwelt

Nhenhan-eh arnarnka

Alhenp ngkwengenh anpelhang

Amak ngkwengenh atulhang

Arlentj ngwengenh angelhang

Lakenhel anert anpelhang

Lupu, amper, arnururrk an ingkang

Bubble Mouth

Written by: Ti Tree Middle Primary Class & ‘Music Outback Education’ –Seini Taumoepeau & Mal Webb

Bubble mouth

You can’t understand him

Bubble mouth

You can’t hear the words

Bubble mouth

It means no sense, when he goes

Blbbllblbblbllblbblb.. huh?!

Numbers and mumblers [short]x4

Numbers and mumblers [long]x4

2 4 6 8… blbblblbblblbb

10 12 14 16… blbblblbblblbb

18 20… blbblblbblblbb

22 24… blbblblbblblbb

Bush Tucker Song
(Anmatyerr language)
Written by: Anmatyerr Class, April Campbell, Pilawuk & ‘Music Outback
Education’ - Seini ‘SistaNative’ Taumoepeau, Mal Webb

[C]East of Aileron in the old days
[F]Anmatyerr people [C]lived near the swamp
Amongst gum trees and lots of mountains
We [F]ate bush tucker, [C]mern arlkwem
Like the [Bb]bush tomato... [G]katyerr
The [Bb]bush berries... [G]perlap
The [Bb]bush banana... [G]alangkw
The [Bb]bush bean... [G]kerlperr
The [Bb]bush apples... [G]marr
We [Bb]ate bush tucker, [G]mern arlkwem

[C]East of Aileron in the old days
[F]Anmatyerr people [C]lived [F]near the [C]swamp

Caterpillar Song

(Junior class& Music Outback Foundation: Steve Berry & Mal Webb)

The little caterpillar popped out of an egg

Out of an eggout of an egg

GDG

The little caterpillar popped out of an egg, feeling so hungry

And so the caterpillar ate

One apple, two pears, three plums

GDG

Four strawberries and five oranges, but he was still hungry

So he ate…

One piece of cake, one ice cream

One pickle, one slice of cheese

A slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie

One sausage, one cupcake and he had a stomach ache

And so the caterpillar ate a nice green leaf

A nice green leaf, a nice green leaf

So the caterpillar ate a nice green leaf then he felt much better

But he wasn’t little, not any more, he was a big fat caterpillar

He built a cocoon and stayed in there for two whole weeks

Then he nibbled, a little hole and pushed himself outside…. and…

Now the caterpillar is a pretty butterfly

A pretty butterfly, a pretty butterfly

Now the caterpillar is a pretty butterfly flying through the sky

Eagle-Angel
Lyrics by: Wayne Scrutton & ‘Music Outback Education’ - Seini ‘SistaNative’
Taumoepeau. Music by: Wayne Scrutton & ‘Music Outback Education’ - Seini ‘SistaNative’
Taumoepeau, Mal Webb 7/9/04

Intro:[Em]

Verse 1:

In my [Em]imagination, always a [A]big bird
She’s like an [C]Eagle-Angel

Flapping softly with her [A]large wings

[Am]Stirring dustwhen the world is [A]spinning
Like clouds [C]blocking the sun at night sometimes it’s [A]like that
Chorus:

[G]Softness (ooh ooh) [D/F#] when the wind is blowing
[Em]So cold(oh oh oh)
[A]You can feel it on your skin
[C]Freezing cold (freezing)
[G/B]Above our skin (our skin)
[A]In our world(our world)
She’s giving us the wind to [C]breathe (to breathe)
She’s giving us the wind to [A]breathe (to breathe)
She’s giving us the wind to [Em]breathe(AH AH AH)
[G]Freezing cold (freezing)
[D/F#]Above our skin (our skin)
[Em]In our world (our world)
She’s [A]giving us the wind to [C]breathe (to breathe)
Verse 2:

In my [Em]imagination, always a [A]big bird

She’s like an [C]Eagle-Angel

Flapping softly with her [A]large wings
Bothering her like little babies [A]crying to eat
They think she’s [C]stirring things up

Small Eagle-Angel [A]feeling sick
Chorus: (as above)

Ending: [Em]Wind to breathe x4

11 Ways to Spell “oo”

Written by: Ti Tree Upper Primary Class & ‘Music Outback Education’ –Seini Taumoepeau & Mal Webb

11 ways to spell “oo”

11 ways to spell “oo” “oo” “oo”

I’ll give you a clue, so you can too

11 ways to spell “oo”

I knew a roo who ate a gnu

“Are you a roo too?” said the gnu to the ewe

Sue had clue about who threw the glue at the blue gnu. Do roos eat stew?

[Chorus]

I knew an old lady who lived in a new blue shoe with so many kids she didn’t know what to do. So she gave them some stew to chew… so they wouldn’t argue

[Chorus]

Do two cows moo at the zoo?

A caribou in a canoe in Malibu

A roo threw a new shoe through a blue igloo

And we say to you… “adieu”!

Intro l C l…

11 ways… l Cl Gl l Cl x2

Verse… l Am l l Em l l Am l l G l l

Farm Concert
Lyrics from ‘The Farm Concert’ book by: Joy Cowley
Music & Arrangement by: ‘Music Outback Education’ - Seini ‘SistaNative’ Taumoepeau, Mal Webb
Intro. [C]
[C]MOO MOO - Went the cow
WOOF WOOF - Went the dog
[Am]QUACK QUACK - Went the [G]duck
[Am]CROAK CROAK - Went the [G]frog
[C]OINK OINK - Went the pig
BAA BAA - Went the sheep
[F]Quiet yelled the [C]farmer
[G]I can’t [Am]sleep
No [G]I can’t [Am]sleep
[F]Quiet yelled the [C]farmer
[G]I can’t [C]sleep
[C]MOO MOO - Went the cow
WOOF WOOF - Went the dog
[Am]QUACK QUACK - Went the [G]duck
[Am]CROAK CROAK - Went the [G]frog
[C]OINK OINK - Went the pig
BAA BAA - Went the sheep
[F]Good said the [C]farmer
Now [G]I can [Am]sleep
Now [G]I can [Am]sleep
Good said the farmer
Now [G]I can [C]sleep

For Life
Written by: Secondary Class, April Campbell & Pilawuk
Music by: Cedric Cooke & ‘Music Outback Education’ - Seini ‘SistaNative’
Taumoepeau, Mal Webb
7th Sept, 2004

Verse:

[D]Life is on the outside, [Bm]People, many faces
[G]Waves pushed away, [A]Open up the way
[D]People, many faces, [Bm]Leaving, moving places
[G]Hearts filled with joy, [A]Some empty inside

Pre-Chorus:

[G]Waves moving slowly, [Bm]survive
[G]Waves moving, lonely for [A]life
[G]Life is on the outside, a [Bm]new life
[G]Life is on the outside, [A]good life

Chorus:

[D]Clouds are moving, Sky is clearing, [Bm]Sun is shining in
[G]Sharing our knowledge, [A]Helping each other
[D]Making pen friends for life
[D]Show your culture, Learning our way

[Bm]Teach us your way too
[G][Respecting one another, [A]As one together
[D]Hope is alive in us

Chorus: (as above)
Ending:

[G]Respecting one another, [A]As one together
[D]Hope is alive in us!

Get on a Natural High
Written by: Secondary Class, Pilawuk & ‘Music Outback Education’ -
Seini ‘SistaNative’ Taumoepeau, Mal Webb

Intro: [D9 l l l - C9 C#9 ]

Chorus:

[D9]Say No to drugs, Get educated
Don’t listen to other people
Play music, Keep away from drugs
Your future, your choice

Why take drugs?
Get [C9]on a [C#9]Natural High[D9]
Get on a Natural High
Get on a Natural High [C9 C#9]

Verse 1:

[D9]Think it’s tough, Well it’s not
Keep yourself safe when it gets hot
How about your family you forgot (You forgot) [C9 C#9]

Verse 2:

Petrol sniffing, cannabis and alcohol
Tobacco is bad, be in control
Say No to drugs, it must be told (Must be told) [C9 C#9]

Chorus: (as above)

Going home

Written by: Junior Secondary women: Keisha, Antonio, Jacinta, Natasha, Marietta, Nezzarina & Music Outback: Seini 'SistaNative' Taumoepeau, Mal Webb

[G6]Lonely, I'm going home to[CΔ]Ti tree, been gone so long

[G6]Six mile and Ti tree station [CΔ]where I'm from

[G6]Went away overseas [CΔ]feeling sad, missing everyone

[G6]My parents, my family and [CΔ]all of my friends

Anmatyerr

[G6]Lharrp (lonely/feeling sad)

Petyerr-alpem mer-warn (coming home - mine)

Mer [CΔ]atyengenh-warn (to Ti tree)

Ayeng kwet alhek

Mer [G6]Ywentwenta Nturiyi(a) (Six mile)(Ti tree station)

Ayeng [CΔ]petyalpek tyengenh-warn(I come back to my place)

[G6]Ayeng- alhek Mer arrpenh-warn (Went away overseas)

Ayeng [CΔ]awelhek irrar (feeling sad)

Atyengenh atyerrty-map (family & parents, everyone)

Thang [G6]imperl-alhek (Leave family)

Atyerrty-atyenh map

Ayeng [CΔ]petyalpek Mer Tyengenh-warn (I come back to my place)

Warlpiri

Yirraru karma (lonely)

Yanirni Ti Tree-kirra(I'm coming home)

Nthuriya warrting-kirna ngajuju (Been gone so long)

Yarnurn wunturu (Went away overseas)

Mannginyangulparna-jana (feeling sad, missing everyone)

Warlalja yapa patu (My parents, My family)

Manu yapa wungu warnu (and all of my friends)

Happy Birthday Ti Tree
Written by: Ti Tree School 2009

& ‘Music Outback Education’ - Mal Webb and Steve Berry

DGC

1969, a man walked on the moon

Ti Tree said, “we wanna have a school,

We wanna have a school soon”

DGC

6 silver bullet caravans came up from Alice Springs

With teachers, blackboards, books and pens

And lots of other things

FCBbGm

Happy Birthday Ti Tree, 40 years today

FCBbA7

Happy Birthday Ti Tree, we’ve all come a long way

Our parents and our grandparents

Learnt to read and write

Listened to their teachers

Until they got it right

They wanted bigger classrooms

But they had to wait

DGC

Until they built a brand new school in 1978

Chorus x2

Helicopter Song
Written by: Ti Tree - Junior Primary Class 2009

& ‘Music Outback Education’ - Seini ‘SistaNative’ Taumoepeau & Mal Webb

GCEb G C D

At 8 in the morning, we heard 6 helicopters flying by

The whole school went walking to see the helicopters
D

At the Ti Tree airstrip

GCEbG C D

The 12 army pilots there were 11 men and 1 woman

We sat in the cockpit and when they all took off

Dust went flying everywhere!

EmAm

Syd and Simone had their photos taken

EmD

We sang them some songs and we waved goodbye

GCEbG C

At 8 in the morning, we heard 6 helicopters flying by

GCEbG

At 8 in the morning, we heard 6 helicopters flying by

Hot Day

(Warlpiri Language)

(Seraphina Presley Haines & Music Outback Foundation: Steve Berry & Mal Webb 2007)

Jalangu ka karrimi

C∆

Wantalku

Jankamilki-kapi-ngalpa

C∆

Yapa ju

Am9

Kapi-ngalpa Wurrupupurlu

Wirliya mani

C∆D611

Ngapa-rlipa ngarni wiri

C∆

Manu yamangka nyinanjaku

D611

Wanta-kujaku

C∆G∆

Wanta-kujaku

Intang-warn Ntyem

Written by: Seraphina Haines-Presley & Music Outback: Seini ‘SistaNative’ Taumoepeau & Mal Webb

Verse 1

CFDm

Ngwerra nwern alyweny-lhekala Yesterday we went hunting

Nwern antyek intang-warn We climbed the hill

FAmG/B

Kern anthwerr aretyek Really high to look

CFAm G/B C G

Inarleng-eka, Inarleng-eka For porcupine x2

Chorus

CEm

Mwerr anthwerr antyetyeka Very good to climb up

Aretyek Aretyek To see x2

CEm

Mwerr antwerr antyetyeka

FGC

Aretyek Aretyek

Verse 2

CFDm

Itya Itya nwern narnpekah Nothing nothing climb down

Ahelh-warn pwarrk-mah To the ground, tired by then

FAm G/B

Nwern mern arlkwetyam We were eating lunch

CFAm G/B CG

Lywang-elayala. Lywang-elayala In the shade

Jigsaw puzzle

(Ti Tree Junior Class & Music Outback Foundation: Jacqueline Freeman & Mal Webb 2011)

GCG

Jigsaw puzzle

Make all the pieces fit together

GCG

Jigsaw puzzle

Make sure they’re not upside down

GCG

Jigsaw puzzle

Make all the pieces fit together

GCGC

Jigsaw puzzles and if they don’t fit then

turn them around, turn them around

DCG

aro aro aro aro, turn them around

Lots of different shapes and colours

Bb7

Some are much more fun than others

Some are hard and some are easy

Bb7

We love playing games at Ti Tree

Let’s get started on the double

Puzzles keep us out of trouble trouble

trouble, trouble trouble trouble trouble

Juka manu Jira

(Seraphina Presley Haines & Music Outback Foundation: Steve Berry & Mal Webb 2007)

Dm Am

Juka manu jira. Yampiya juka manu jira

Juka manu Jira

Kapingalpa majumani palka

F C

Palka-rlipa nyanu, mardarni Kirlka

CBb