I know I won't be popular for saying this, and I add this to the thread in the spirit of generating discussion - not offending!

I myself strongly dislike the song for perpetuating that myth that the swaggies' days were the good old days, and all you needed to do was wander carefree, stopping for the occasional damper & billy tea break. I reckon things were tough on the road for these homeless men.

The "does it quicken your heart beat to see tar and concrete" chorus: I find it contradictory that the song laments the passing of the ways of the generation that committed what paramounts to genocide in Australia. Sure the roads now cover the bullock drays, but before that the bullock drays destroyed the land and the tracks of Australia's first people.

I know most folk love this song. DO I stand alone in my discomfort in singing it? Callie