What does ' paint the ghostly gums' mean?

Answer 1

The term was used in the "I'm Australian" song in reference to a famous aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira who painted traditional indigenous art of the native gum trees. "ghostly gums" refer to the drooping leaves of the gum that sway like ghosts in the wind. The term was used in the "I'm Australian" song in reference to a famous aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira who painted traditional indigenous art of the native gum trees. "ghostly gums" refer to the drooping leaves of the gum that sway like ghosts in the wind. I am, you are, we are Australian.

I'm a teller of stories, I'm a singer of songs

I am Albert Namatjira, and I paint the ghostly gums

I am Clancy on his horse, I'm Ned Kelly on the run

I'm the one who waltzed Matilda, I am Australian.

I'm the hot wind from the desert, I'm the black soil of the plains

I'm the mountains and the valleys, I'm the drought and flooding rains

I am the rock, I am the sky, the rivers when they run

The spirit of this great land, I am Australian.

We are one but we are many

And from all the lands on earth we come,

we share a dream,

And sing with one voice,

I am, you are, we are Australian.

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