An unnamed Sandgate resident remembers a native song that Awabakal children taught her when she was a child: Ah me-bing-a-young, me bing-a-young Me did-gee bid-gee, cut-ra-bid-gee Ah bud-ger-bar-a-me Ah bar-an-bungel You gar-bra (Newcastle Morning Herald, 20 May 1961, Newcastle Library)