Advance Australia Fair!

[Garbage]

I was listening to it,it's ripe.

[paradox]

a little over ripe if you ask me

[~shameless~]

"Fly blown." For a better word

[kindness]

I like Kenny's version of it in the movie Kenny....

"Australians all let us ring Joyce - for she is young and free'

Thats about all I can get into. (Edited... it was the third verse) The third lesser known verse nearly makes me puke:

 

'Beneath our radiant Southern Cross,

We'll toil with hearts and hands,

To make this Commonwealth of ours

Renowned of all the lands,

For those who've come across the seas

We've boundless plains to share,

With courage let us all combine

To advance Australia fair.

In joyful strains then let us sing,

Advance Australia fair.'

 

 

I'm guessing that the boundless plains to share does not include asylum seekers... Particularly interesting is that the song makes direct reference to those who've come across the seas

My island home would be a better anthem. I'm not sure it's about Australia though.... or that one they use in the Qantas ad's ... (dunno if thats the same song).

it really is time for a change on the front of our 'national' anthem. And just for fun I've included the full version. As follows:

Verse One

Australians all let us rejoice,

For we are young and free;

We've golden soil and wealth for toil,

Our home is girt by sea;

Our land abounds in Nature's gifts

Of beauty rich and rare;

In history's page, let every stage

Advance Australia fair!

In joyful strains then let us sing,

"Advance Australia fair!"

Verse Two

When gallant Cook from Albion sail'd,

To trace wide oceans o'er,

True British courage bore him on,

Till he landed on our shore.

Then here he raised Old England's flag,

The standard of the brave;

With all her faults we love her still,

"Brittannia rules the wave!"

In joyful strains then let us sing

"Advance Australia fair!"

Verse Three

Beneath our radiant southern Cross,

We'll toil with hearts and hands;

To make this Commonwealth of ours

Renowned of all the lands;

For those who've come across the seas

We've boundless plains to share;

With courage let us all combine

To advance Australia fair.

In joyful strains then let us sing

"Advance Australia fair!"

Verse Four

While other nations of the globe

Behold us from afar,

We'll rise to high renown and shine

Like our glorious southern star;

From England, Scotia, Erin's Isle,

Who come our lot to share,

Let all combine with heart and hand

To advance Australia fair!

In joyful strains then let us sing

"Advance Australia fair!"

Verse Five

Shou'd foreign foe e'er sight our coast,

Or dare a foot to land,

We'll rouse to arms like sires of yore

To guard our native strand;

Brittannia then shall surely know,

Beyond wide ocean's roll,

Her sons in fair Australia's land

Still keep a British soul.

In joyful strains the let us sing

"Advance Australia fair!"

Don't you just love that fifth verse, 'or dare a foot to land'

peace

Edited October 19, 2009 by meanies

[JDanger]

Not to mention most of my 'joyful strains' are now illegal, too.

[kindness]

lol - they weren't when we were a hemp colony

[botanika]

Why not make up our own....

'Stralia let us all get pissed,

Happy hour will start at three;

We've golden pubes and sunburnt boils,

White pointers out to sea;

Our land was cleared for consumer gifts,

And steak cooked medium rare;

In history's stint we are fine print,

Advance 'Stralia who cares;

With skunky strains then let us sin,

Advance 'Stralia who cares;

When poofter Crook from Albion sailed,

To flee his taxation woe;

Winging British guilt bore him on,

Via a cheap hong kong gigilo;

At The Rocks he built a backpacker pub,

And threw hemp seeds from his lair;

With unfaithful sex we love her still,

Advance 'Stralia who cares;

With sensi strains then let us sin,

Advance 'Stralia who cares;

Beneath our smoggy Southern Cross,

We doll bludge and we surf;

To make this orchy bong of ours,

We cut hose pipe off dad's turf;

For those who've come across the seas,

We've western suburbs to share;

With redhead matches let us toke,

Advance 'Stralia who cares;

In bush bud strains then let us sin,

Advance 'Stralia, who cares;

Other nations of the globe,

Well they're already here;

Fish n Chips and Tom Yam soup,

And Rutan's homebrew beer;

From Lebanon to Solomon,

They want showbags and blonde hair;

Let us all combine our dick and hand,

Advance 'Stralia who cares;

In hazy strains then let us sin,

Advance 'Stralia who cares;

Sh'ou'd foe e'er o'er WTF is this?

Maybe that Australian Crawl band;

We'll run away to the hills,

To guard our lime green strand;

The cops they shall never know,

Beyond a jam donut roll;

That no-one truly owns the land,

And no-one owns your soul;

In widow strains of filthy shit,

Advance 'Stralia who cares

___________________________

I love a bumfucked country,

A land of commie laws,

Of endless bloody gum trees,

Of BBQ and coleslaws,

I love her fat inflation,

I love her fishless sea,

Her taxes and her speeding fines,

The wide brown eye for me.

Edited October 19, 2009 by botanika

[Garbage]

I wonder if New Zealanders rejected it but the Australian Government of the time embraced it.

[drugo]

Why not make up our own....

The wide brown eye for me.

I like it. Submit it to parliament. But first lay some acid jazz layers behind it and get your base player to sing the anthem.

[ThunderIdeal]

i remember the third verse being touted as the second verse in school, had no idea the second, fourth and fifth existed. seems they've been removed from popular use because their content is too dated.

[devance]

http://www.physorg.com/news175792057.html

Like the mole rat, many benifits.

Except human.

[Naked mole rats can live up to 30 years, which is exceptionally long for a small rodent. Despite large numbers of naked mole-rats under observation, there has never been a single recorded case of a mole rat contracting cancer, says Gorbunova. Adding to their mystery is the fact that mole rats appear to age very little until the very end of their lives.]

The only question who has been observing the naked mole rats for thirty years.