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Which song makes you think about your new life in OZ ?

Old May 3rd 2003, 9:03 pm
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I've got two.......


Somewhere over the rainbow - Eva Cassidy

A Whole new world (Aladdin Soundtrack)

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Originally posted by terryg
I've got two.......


Somewhere over the rainbow - Eva Cassidy

A Whole new world (Aladdin Soundtrack)
Sorry - this plays into the hand of the cynics amongst us but it's got to be Slim Dusty's 'Waltzing Matilda No More'. This will probably mean nothing to most here - I doubt that he's been heard of much outside Oz but he's an Oz country singer (I normally can't stand country music).

Serious mood for a moment - I intend to spend the rest of my life in Australia and as a result I care about the way in which parts of it are being ruined without any apparent thought for the future - if you get a chance listen to this song. the first time I heard it I laughed but the second time it hit home a bit.

That's it. I promise not to be serious again for a while.

Cheers

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Definitely "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC


Living easy, living free
Season ticket on a one-way ride
Asking nothing, leave me be
Taking everything in my stride
Don't need reason, don't need rhyme
Ain't nothing I would rather do
Going down, party time
My friends are gonna be there too

I'm on the highway to hell

No stop signs, speed limit
Nobody's gonna slow me down
Like a wheel, gonna spin it
Nobody's gonna mess me round
Hey Satan, paid my dues
Playing in a rocking band
Hey Momma, look at me
I'm on my way to the promised land
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Originally posted by terryg
I've got two.......


Somewhere over the rainbow - Eva Cassidy

A Whole new world (Aladdin Soundtrack)
Terry mate you sad bastard

ok then - how about "Rootin in the back of a ute"

that well known old aussie country song

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Here's one for you would-be Aussies:

Down Under

Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,

"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Lying in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?"
And he said,

"Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."
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How about:

On arrival in Oz: "Another Day in Paradise" - Phil Collins


When "holiday mode" wears off: "Get Back" - The Beatles....
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And here's one for me 'cause I'm heading fo NZ:

Deacon Blue
Album Raintown
Song Title Dignity

Lyrics
There's a man I meet
Walks up our street
He's a worker for the council
Has been twenty years
And he takes no lip off nobody
And litter off the gutter
Puts it in a bag
And never thinks to mutter
And he packs his lunch in a Sunblest bag
The children call him Bogie
He never lets on
But I know 'cause he once told me
He let me know a secret
About the money in his kitty
He's gonna buy a dinghy
Gonna call her Dignity

And I'll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
I'll be on my holidays
They'll be doing their rounds
They'll ask me how I got her I'll say
I saved my money
They'll say isn't she pretty
That ship called Dignity

And I'm telling this story
In a faraway scene
Sipping down Raki
And reading Maynard Keynes
And I'm thinking about home
And all that means
And a place in the winter
For Dignity

And I'll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
I'll be on my holidays
They'll be doing their rounds
They'll ask me how I got her I'll say
I saved my money
They'll say isn't she pretty
That ship called Dignity

Set it up set it up set it up set it up set it up set it up
Yeah set it up again set it up again set it up again set it up again
Set it up set it up set it up set it up set it up set it up
Yeah set it up again set it up again set it up again set it up again

And I'm thinking about home
And I'm thinking about faith
And I'm thinking about work
And I'm thinking
How good it would be
To be here some day
On a ship called Dignity
A ship called Dignity
That ship

Cheers - Don
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Originally posted by pleasancefamily
And here's one for me 'cause I'm heading fo NZ:

Deacon Blue
Album Raintown
Song Title Dignity


Cheers - Don
Excellent song. I've still got the live version on a 12" single. Thanks for that one.

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Originally posted by Rosy
How about:

On arrival in Oz: "Another Day in Paradise" - Phil Collins


When "holiday mode" wears off: "Get Back" - The Beatles....
Rosie you crack me up, thanks for the giggle.
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Love this song from Ilse de Lange,a dutch artist

Flying Solo

'Cross the Bering strait
to a foreign land
I took to the sky just like I planned
Left my old life behind
there in the ice and snow
followed a rainbow to Mexico

Somewhere this side of lucky just shy of goin' down
there's a pilot with her wings on fire
and she doesn't even notice,
she got magic on her mind
'cause she's flyin' solo for the first time

chorus:
Flying solo
like an angel in the night
flyin' solo
across the great devide
I've been down so low, now I'm up so high
there ain't nothin' short of dying
is gonna make me change my mind
flyin' solo, flyin' solo

Like a fallin' leaf
I fell down from your tree
chalk one up to prosperity
in search of warmer waters
I'm like a bird gone south
don't know just what I'll find
but I'm finding out

Now here I'm dancin' with the moon
spinning out of control
never be the same agian
'cause there's a place under the horizon
where it hardly ever rains
the sun is always shining
freedom is it's name

(chorus)

Around the world that's where I'll be
Amelia Earheart's got nothin' on me

(chorus)
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i was working in sydney at the mlc building went for lunch as usual and found people gathering at the ampitheatre on market st/sq just outside joined them soon after crowded house started playing - i had never heard of them before - surprise visit organised by one of the radio stations - one of their more popular songs was - always take the weather with you - obviously i have no wish to take the scottish weather with me but the song always reminds me of my time in oz.

so thats sentimental 2p worth!

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Definitely Eminem - Lose Yourself. Not very australian ! But these lyrics in particular....

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

It makes me feel positive when i'm having doubts !!

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BOTANY BAY

Farewell to old England for ever,
Farewell to my rum culls as well,
Farewell to the well-known old Bailey
Where I once used to cut such a swell.

Chorus:

Singing Too-ral li-ooral-li ad-dity,
Singing Too-ral li-ooral-li-ay,
Singing Too-ral li-ooral-li ad-dity
And we’re bound for Botany Bay.


There’s the Captain and I’m your Commander,
I’m the bo’sun and we’re the ship’s crew,
There’s the first and the second class passengers,
Knows what we poor convicts go through.

Ain’t leaving old England we cares about
Ain’t cause we mis-spells what we knows
But because all we light-fingered gentry
Hops around with a log on our toes


Oh, had I the wings of a turtle-dove!
I’d soar on my pinions so high,
Slap bang to the arms of my Polly love,
And in her sweet bosom I’d die


Now, all my young Dookies and Duchesses,
Take warning from what I do say
Mind all is your own as you touchesses,
Or you'll join us in Botany Bay.
 
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How about that other AC/DC classic "Beating around the Bush"?

Or am I misunderstanding the lyrics ?
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