DAVE’S AUSTRALIA ADVENT JUKEBOX #28
Finally the endpoint has arrived, the last track on the Australia Day Jukebox for this year. No surprises. There are many Aussie songs I’ve written that I could’ve added: Beneath The Southern Cross, Kangaraoo Hop, The Year East Freo Won The Flag, but this will have to do. Younger Australians wouldn’t understand what it was like growing up in an era of skin tight shorts and John Newcombe moustaches. So I’ll confine my comments to – have a fine day taking pride in whatever you do or love that is uniquely Australian.
CONVICT STREAK
Maybe it’s because of our convict streak
We want to fight everyone we meet
Anzac Day is our day of the year
We march our march and we drink our beer
We don’t like Slopes, we don’t like Yanks
I’d personally like to blow up every Commy tank
We’re only few but we fought in ‘Nam
Packed our guns alongside Uncle Sam
Ask any of us it was no sin
The only crime was that we didn’t win
And the Poms are weak as piss the French are queer
The Germans are wankers but they make good beer
Don’t criticise what you don’t understand
If you think I’m talking shit
You don’t belong in this land
I’m Australian we all are
We watch the tele and we drive our cars
But don’t you ever say we’re weak
Or you’ll learn all about our convict streak
The world began with Adam and Eve
But Australia started at Gallipoli
We put the desert into Desert Rats
Our uncles slipped the boot in down in Lambing Flats
Don’t criticise what you don’t understand
It’s not that we’re behind the times we’re a different land
We might be slobs but we’re not weak
Maybe it’s because of our convict streak
the Poms are weak as piss the French are queer
The Germans are wankers but they make good beer
Don’t criticise what you don’t understand
If you think I’m talking shit
You don’t belong in this land
I’m Australian so are you
Doesn’t matter if you’re Ding or Jew
Just remember while you’re here
You march our march and you drink our beer
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