Goodbye Blinky Bill
| "Goodbye Blinky Bill" | ||||
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| Single by John Williamson | ||||
| from the album All the Best | ||||
| Released | March 1986 | |||
| Studio | Trafalgar Studios, Sydney Australia | |||
| Label | GumLeaf Records, Festival Music | |||
| Songwriter(s) | John Williamson | |||
| Producer(s) | John Williamson | |||
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"Goodbye Blinky Bill" is a song written and recorded by John Williamson with Bullamakanka and John’s daughters Ami and Georgie. The song was released in a limited edition in March 1986 as the only single from Williamson's 1986 compilation album All the Best.
The song is a conservation song, raising awareness of the decline in numbers of the Australian koala due to deforestation of eucalypts trees; with reference to an anthropomorphic koala named Blinky Bill. A$1 from each sale was donated to the Koala Preservation Society in Port Macquarie.
The song has been covered by The Wayfarers.