The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167067   Message #4048496
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
26-Apr-20 - 12:50 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Me and Cheryl McGraw
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Me and Cheryl McGraw
a few translations

Woollongong - regional area & city south of Sydney
daggy - unfashionable, but comfortable
Holden - car made in Australia by General Motors Holden
Narrabeen - beachside suburb on Sydney's north shore, not world famous
Penrith Panthers - football club
didgeridoo - iconic indigenous Australian instrument
stubby - can of beer
Port Kembla - mining town in Woollongong area
Advance Australia Fair - our not very popular national anthem, written in 1878 with 4 verses, 2 verses were adopted as our national anthem in 1984 & NOBODY ever remember the 2nd verse!
Bondi - world famous beach in Sydney's eastern suburbs
chicko roll - a snack or maybe even a meal - veggies & meat in a thick pastry cover & deep fried
prawns - shrimp
Maroubra - another eastern suburbs beachside suburb, not world famous
long-haired commie poofter - a generic insult, 3-insults-in-one (doesn't have a proper haircut, so must be a communist & a homosexual)
Balmain is an inner city suburb of Sydney, where trendies live - it's another insult
Shane Gould - famous swimmer

extra verse -
North Sydney - as it's names says, suburb to the north across the Harbour Bridge from Sydney CBD
pokies - poker machines/slot machines
RSL - Returned Soldiers Club, like any other big club (eg football clubs), always full of poker machines & people trying to win money
Country Practice - famous soap opera
Pennant Hills - suburbia!