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The Goodnight Kiwi is an animated short which has been used to signal the end of nightly broadcasts on Television New Zealand channels. The Goodnight Kiwi features two characters: the eponymous Goodnight Kiwi (later also called TV Kiwi), and his companion, simply known as The Cat. The animation was introduced in 1975 on TV2, and used on South Pacific Television between 1976 and 1980. Between 1980 and 19 October 1994, the animation was screened again on TV2. This animation returned on 6 September 2007 for use on TVNZ 6 when the channel ends transmission at midnight. TVNZ U also used the Goodnight Kiwi at midnight before overnight service. The short was animated by Sam Harvey (1923–2014), with music arrangement by Bernie Allen and sound by Gary Potts. more »

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They used to take lead and zinc out the ground
The roads are close, sinkholes dot this hollow town
They built machines, sent them off to foreign shores
Little piece of the Quapaw Nation in the great world war
If you're Tulsa bound
You may pass by
A broken down
City that died
The state may have
But now we know
What lied below
Picher, Oklahoma
Mountains of what the mines left tower over this land
Giant piles of poison gravel and sand
In 2008, twister came blowing in from the west
150 homes swept the earth, a population dispossessed
If you're Tulsa bound
You may pass by
A broken down
City that died
The state may have
But now we know
What lied below
Picher, Oklahoma
When the mines were abandoned, they filled back up with rain
Toxic lead in the groundwater could not be contained
When the people and their children got sick the coming end was known
The state cut some low dough checks and said, "People, you're on your own."
If you're Tulsa bound
You may pass by
A broken down
City that died
The state may have
But now we know
What lied below
Picher, Oklahoma
You can't go to Picher, Oklahoma

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