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By Marg Gemmell (Music Teacher)

This song was written during workshops with John Shortis during 2000 and has become a very popular song throughout the school. It was commissioned by the Dandenong Ranges Music Council as part of a big ‘environment and the arts’ event - Ballad of Birdsland.

An even larger group performed it on February 28th in the biggest amphitheatre at Emerald Lake as part of a day organised by the Puffing Billy Society exactly 100 years to the day after a picnic held in Ferntree Gully to celebrate Federation.

Listen to the Puffing Billy Song :

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