- Percy Mumbulla 

From the hollow trees in their native home

them old fellows cut the honeycomb.

On honey and little white grubs they fed,

'cause them young bees was blackfeller's bread.

That's why they was so mighty and strong

in their native home in Currarong.

An' them old fellers' drink was honey-bul;

honey and water, a coolamon full.

Naked through the bush they went,

an' never knew what sickness meant,

them native bees could do you no harm,

they'd crawl all over your honey-smeared arm.

But them Eyetalian bees, they'd bung

your eyes right up. When we was young

we used to rob their honey-trees,

Savage! they'd fetch your blood, Them bees

would zoom an' zing an' chase a feller

from Bombaderry to Bodalla

Well Old Uncle Ninah, and Billy Bulloo

Old Jacky Mumbulla, King Merriman too,

them fierce old fellers, they're all gone now.

An' the wild honey's still in the gumtree bough.