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Flying over the Flinders Ranges;

Places  in Australia with odd names; I leave you the pleasure of looking them up on the Australian map,
enjoy a nice trip. The names are pronounced in English!

 Oodnadatta,

Pepegoona,

Ararat
 Arkaroola

 Tantanoola

 Wipipee

Above the Flinders Ranges;

 Farina

 Ballarat

 Thackaringa

Taltabooka 

 Murrindindie;

Kalioota
 Winininnie

 Beltana
The Bight,

 Mallee's 

Flinders Ranges a fantastic landscape.

 Darling Downs,

 Yudnapinna,

 Tidnacoordininna,

 Mallacoota

 Baroota

 Yankalilla;

Wallaroo
Wirrawilla

Booboorowie 

Oodla
Wirra, 
Orroroo

Wycheproof
 Wollongong

 Never Never,

Sounding in each mountain rill,

Echoing from hill to hill…

In the lonely, silent places

Men lift up their glad, wet faces,

And their thanks ask no explaining -

It is raining - raining - raining!

Names of  towns used in CJ Den's famous poem  "And it's raining, raining, raining."

C J Dennis, Poet; Journalist, was born in Auburn, South Australia, on 7 September 1876,  he preferred to be known as Den.

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Poetic Takeaway's;
Three Monkeys

I love rain;

C J Dennis1876-1938, written in 1913

Adelaide and Oodnadatta,

Pepegoona, parched and dry

Laugh beneath a dripping sky.

Riverina's thirsting plain

Knows the benison of rain.

Ararat and Arkaroola

Render thanks with Tantanoola

For the blessings they are gaining,

And it's raining - raining - raining!

Weeps the sky at Wipipee

Far Farina's folk are dippy

With sheer joy, while Ballarat

Shouts and flings aloft its hat.

Thirsty Thackaringa yells;

Taltabooka gladly tells

Of a season wet and windy;

Men rejoice on Murrindindie;

Kalioota's ceased complaining;

For it's raining - raining - raining!

On the wilds of Winininnie

Cattle low and horses whinny,

Frolicking with sheer delight.

From Beltana to The Bight,

In the Mallee's sun-scorched towns,

In the sheds on Darling Downs,

In the huts at Yudnapinna,

Tents on Tidnacoordininna,

To the sky all heads are craning -

For it's raining - raining - raining!

Mile on mile from Mallacoota

Runs the news, and far Baroota

Speeds it over hill and plain,

Till the slogan of the rain

Rolls afar to Yankalilla;

Wallaroo and Wirrawilla

Shout it o'er the leagues between,

Telling of the dawning green.

Frogs at Cocoroc are croaking,

Booboorowie soil is soaking,

Oodla Wirra, Orroroo

Breathe relief and hope anew.

Wycheproof and Wollongong

Catch the burden of the song

That is rolling, rolling ever

O'er the plains of Never Never,

Sounding in each mountain rill,

Echoing from hill to hill…

In the lonely, silent places

Men lift up their glad, wet faces,

And their thanks ask no explaining -

It is raining - raining - raining!

C J Dennis, Poet & Journalist was born in Auburn, South Australia, on 7 September 1876, he was christened Clarence Michael James, and afterwards given the confirmation name of Stanislaus. He preferred to be known as Den.

After formal education in Gladstone, Laura and Adelaide, Den worked in a number of diverse positions, such as a solicitor's clerk, a member of the staff of the Critic (a weekly Adelaide journal), and a hotel barman. Already writing, a number of his early verse were published in the’Critic’ in 1898.

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