Aboriginal Australian Song

The tongues of the lightning Snakes flicker and twist, one to the other.
They flash across the foliage of the cabbage palms.
Lightning flashes through the clouds with the flickering tongues of the
          snakes.
It is always there, at the wide expanse of water, at the place of the
          sacred tree.
All over the sky their tongues flicker, above the place called Rising
          Clouds, the place called Standing Clouds.
All over the sky tongues flickering and twisting.
They are always there at the camp by the wide expanse of water.
All over the sky the tongues flicker: at the place called Two Sisters
          where the guardian ancestors are.
Lightning flashes through the clouds, flash of the Lightning snake.
Its blinding flash lights up the cabbage palms,
Gleams on the cabbage palms on the shining leaves.