Goodbye Blinky Bill

{{short description|1986 song by Joh Williamson}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Goodbye Blinky Bill

| cover = Goodbye_Blinky_Bill_by_John_Williamson.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = John Williamson

| album = All the Best

| released = March 1986

| recorded =

| studio = Trafalgar Studios, Sydney Australia

| venue =

| genre =

| length =

| label = GumLeaf Records, Festival Music

| writer = John Williamson

| producer = John Williamson

| prev_title = You and My Guitar

| prev_year = 1985

| next_title = True Blue

| next_year = 1986

}}

"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.{{cite web|url=http://www.koalaland.com.au/single-post/2011/11/18/John-Williamson-Goodbye-Blinky-Bill|title= John Williamson – Goodbye Blinky Bill|publisher=Koala Land|date=2011|accessdate=22 September 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://greatsong.net/PAROLES-JOHN-WILLIAMSON,GOODBYE-BLINKY-BILL,102861986.html|title=Paroles de GOODBYE BLINKY BILL John Williamson|publisher=Great Song|accessdate=23 September 2018}}

The song has been covered by The Wayfarers.{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/au/album/the-unicorn-26-songs-for-kids/272385347|title=The Unicorn by The Wayfarers|date=6 December 2007 |publisher=iTunes Australia|access-date=23 September 2018}}