Don't Pick Up A Bat

A wry, affectionate song about the single most common way Australians end up needing treatment for a bat bite, which is picking up a bat in order to help it.

Aderet Therapy Weekly is a weekly paediatric physiotherapy podcast for parents of babies and young children, made by Aderet Therapy in Campbelltown, in the Macarthur region of NSW. Each episode mixes short talk segments with original songs written for the week's topic. This is a song from the episode "Why does a bat scratch you can barely see still need treating?".

This has been created with the help of AI.

Links

• Aderet Therapy
• Listen to the full episode (Aderet Therapy Weekly, 10 August 2026)

• Read more, Knock Knees and Bow Legs

Lyrics

Verse

I have picked up a bat. Well, four.

The first was in the fruit tree net.

I told it, shush now, I have got you.

It had opinions. I have a scar.

Chorus

Don't pick up a bat

That's what they tell you

Don't pick up a bat

I have heard it twice today

And I hear that, I do

I just don't apply it to me

Verse

Bat two was on the clothesline

Bat three was in the shed

By then I had a system

Gumboots and a bucket lid

That is not equipment

That is three things from a shed

I told bat three, relax, I'm trained.

I am not trained.

Chorus

Don't pick up a bat

That's what the sign said

On the door of the little room

Where they were doing my needles

And I hear that, I do

I just hear it a bit late

Bridge

Bat four was in a bin

And the nurse said, back again?

And I said, you remember me?

And she said, love. We have a folder.

And it is not thin.

Chorus

Don't pick up a bat

That's what my own kid says now

From the back seat, in a voice

Don't pick up a bat

And I hear that, I do

I've never met a bat I could walk past

Disclaimer

This song and this video are general information. Every child is unique, and nothing here is medical advice or a substitute for a conversation with your GP, your child and family health nurse, or your physiotherapist. The episode this song comes from says what can and cannot be supported by evidence; the song does not make clinical claims.

About Aderet Therapy

Paediatric physiotherapy for newborns to 18 years: gross motor development, assistive technology, communication physiotherapy, aquatic physiotherapy, key worker early intervention, school holiday programs, and the free Little Movers League community sessions. NDIS, Medicare and private health.

Suite 10, 261 Queen Street, Campbelltown NSW. Wheelchair accessible, free parking.

Phone 02 4949 7276 · info@aderettherapy.com.au · aderettherapy.com.au

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