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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!"
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,
"Britannia rules the wave!"
In joyful strains then let us sing
"Advance Australia fair!"
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!"
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!"
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;
Britannia then shall surely know,
Beyond wide ocean's roll,
Her sons in fair Australia's land
Still keep a British soul.
In joyful strains then let us sing
"Advance Australia fair!"
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G'day! Not only are all Aussies young and free, we've such
rich culture, and it ain't just in the fridge, eh? Not half!
Fair do's! Listen! Here in our little island nation, we have
fun, sunshine, sea, surf, smoothies, strides for trousers, sheilas...
oh, sheilas! - A lot of sensational all-so-beautiful, filthy,
willing, wall-to-wall sheilas! Total stiffies, about a trillion
fairly worried sheep, flora and fauna, a load of alcohol (ice-cold
tinnies full of our favourite beer - Fosters the Amber Nectar),
Vegemite, barbies, boomerangs, bushfires, the artist Rolf Harris,
didgeridoos, Clive James, wallabies, koalas, kangaroos, Bouncer,
Jason Donovan, little Kylie Minogue (a fair stunner, as is that
Tina Arena), a Crowded House with a Savage Garden, our own Australian
Rules footie, Edna Everage, ostriches, the hairiest tarantulas,
our fabulous Barrier Reef, divers Ron and Valerie Taylor, a Great
White Shark (ie: Greg Norman), crook ancestors, Prisoner Cell
Block H, a runner (Cathy Freeman), Evonne Goolagong-Cawley, Pauline
Hanson One Nation, Crocodile Dundee, Olivia Newton-John, Angry
Anderson, Tasmanian Devils, The Saints, Bjorn Again, Mel Gibson,
AC/DC (what a thunder down under!), the little Mardi Gras shirtlifter
fairies all over our Sydney (Fruits? Strewth!), The Aurora Australis,
Rod Laver, Dawn Fraser, Lleyton Hewitt, Shane Warne, that well-hung
Michael Hutchence, The Australian Doors Show, Rod Hull, Sir Donald
Bradman, Joan Sutherland, Lew Hoad... and last, but not least,
ourselves! So hats off to us all! Aussies unite! What a cool
list! Shit, is that far out!
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