Hotel Australia

On a dark ocean highway, sea breeze on our car,

Warm smell of eucalyptus, rushing up through the air,

Up ahead in the roadway, I saw a startling sight,

My foot was quick as the tree grew near,

We had to stop for a bit.

There it stood in the roadway;

Crashed down on a guardrail,

And I was thinking to myself,

We are in heaven, barely missed vacation Hell.

Then we just jumped out and we showed all the way.

Here were voices from all nations,

I thought I heard them say:

Welcome to the Hotel Australia!

Such a lovely place (such a lovely place)

A many lovely face.

Plenty of room at the Hotel Australia

Any time of year (any time of year) you could get killed here.

It took an American family; a spry, enthusiastic, Chinese woman; a couple of tall, 

sharp-looking Aussies; and a sultry, dark, Eastern European woman to move it out of the way. 

Welcome to the hotel Australia. If only all world problems were so easily fixed.

Loren M. Lambert © November 29, 2017