Pigeon/Jundamurra - Paul Kelly, The Messengers

My name is Officer O’Malley

My job is hunting Pigeon down

I don’t like this kind of work much

I’m sick of sleeping on the ground

Pigeon — that’s the name we gave him

Pigeon used to be so tame

‘Til one day he turned against his master

Killed him, broke his brother’s chains

Now Pigeon could track the Holy Spirit

But he don’t leave no tracks at all

I’ve been running round in circles

I’ve been feeling like a fool

Pigeon- that’s the name we gave him

But he’s got another name

It’s spreading all across the valleys

Jandamarra!

— like a burning flame

One time we had him in a gully

One time we had him in a cave

Each time we closed in on our quarry

Pigeon-that's the name we gave him

Pigeon-putting me to shame

I do this job because I have to

I don’t say that he’s to blame

Jandamarra!- how I hate that name