Discover the story of the song > My Boomerang Won’t Come Back – Charlie Drake

The song is about an Aboriginal man in Australia who is having trouble getting his boomerang to come back to him when he throws it. His father speaks to the chief of the tribe about it and they decide to banish him because of his inability to use the boomerang. He spends months practicing and eventually meets a witch doctor who teaches him the trick to get the boomerang to come back by throwing it correctly. However, the protagonist accidentally hits a flying doctor with his first successful throw and owes the witch doctor fourteen chickens.