G'day Wolfgang, Joe, Rick, Charley and all ...

Being a pedant, I'll repost the full words with corrections!

The asterisks (*) are corrections and the carets (^) are terms probably needing some explanation!

I Hate Wogs
(Eric Bogle)

I'm a dinky-di* Australian guy and me name is Bluey* Schmidt.
I love this sunburned country and I'm bloody proud of it
And I love our simple way of life and the things we all hold dear
Like V.F.L.^ and Big Ben Pies and foamin' Toohey's* beer
I love our open friendliness where a man can make good mates
In fact in all Australia there's just one thing I hate:

I hate Wogs, they live like dogs
Some eat bananas and some eat frogs
Some wear turbans some wear clogs
All the bloody same to me 'cause I hate Wogs.

They can't speak proper English and they never seem to learn
And the awful guff that they call food would make your stomach turn
It's always dipped in garlic sauce or fried in olive oil
I've never tasted any meself, but I bet it all tastes vile!
What's wrong with good Australian food, you Slovaks and you Poles?
Good healthy stuff like pie and sauce and chips and Chiko* rolls

'Cause I hate Wogs, they live like dogs
Some eat bananas and some eat frogs
Some wear turbans some wear clogs
All the bloody same to me 'cause I hate Wogs.

And the local chip shop down the street is run by a bloody Greek
He's open sixteen hours a day and seven days a week
And every cent that you spend there on a pie or a dim sim*
Helps to send back home to Greece for a bastard just like him!
Oh, I never eat there meself 'cause I couldn't touch Wog meat
I usually eat at the Chinese caf' that's just across the street!

'Cause I hate Wogs, they live like dogs
Some eat bananas and some eat frogs
Some wear turbans some wear clogs
All the bloody same to me 'cause I hate Wogs.

I was queueing down at the Registry, a-pickin' up me dole
In front of me was a Yugoslav, in front of him a Pole
Behind me was a Eyetalian, behind him was a Turk
Those lazy migrant bastards do, they never bloody work!
But in spite of what the papers say, there's work for those who want to
The wife and twenty-seven kids is all the work I'm going to!

'Cause I hate Wogs, they live like dogs
Some eat bananas and some eat frogs
Some wear turbans some wear clogs
All the bloody same to me 'cause I hate Wogs.

So send the bastards home to Spain, and Italy and Greece
And maybe when they've all gone home, we'll get some bloody peace
To sit in the shade of the coolibah* tree and drink beer all day long
And run amuck* with a fat* jumbuck*, down by the billabong
And every night at twelve o'clock to show that we're not slaggards
We'll stand and sing our national song, "Advance Australia, Backwards*"!

*

Advance Australia, Backwards = (~) Advance Australia Fair ... Australian National Anthem ... after PC re-edit! (not Eric's)

Amuck = Variation of amok ... and it rhymes better!

Dinki-di = Familiar form of "Dinkum" - real, genuine.

Bluey = an Australian nickname for a red-haired man ... ?

Chiko rolls = Proprietory name for a large (enhanced ...?) spring roll

Coolibah = Eucalyptus (Gum) tree - like most gum trees, not actually noted for good shade

Dim Sim = Dumsim is better Chinese ... but Aussies aren't too good at getting anyone else's language right! (And, it means a single roll, not a meal of small morsels, in normal Aussie parlance.)

Fat jumbuck = a sheep (see Waltzing Matilda)

Toohey's = Sydney beer maker


^
V.F.L. = Victorian Footbal League = Australian Rules Football

There are probably some terms I've failed to highlight, because they are too familiar to me ... but this is a start!

Regards,

Bob Bolton