Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem

Subject: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Sep 06 - 07:46 PM

THE NEW AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM
TTO: Australian National Anthem (Official One)
Author Unknown


Australians all let us rejoice
The weekend now is near
We've worked all bloody week for this
Let's go and get a beer.

Our desks abound in paperwork
Our hands are stained with ink
In desperate stage, we'll fly the cage
Advance to Friday drinks!!

With joyful strains, destroy our brains
Advance to Friday drinks.


This was found unattributed flying loose on the net - googling didn't help with an author.

I suppose you are welcome to add new verses...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: GUEST,Rowan
Date: 23 Sep 06 - 11:59 PM

I can't be sure and don't wish to incorrectly apportion blame but the Shiny Bum Singers might know about it.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: GUEST,Nellie Clatt
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 12:14 AM

I like it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 01:10 AM

Don't think it's the Shiny Bums - I have the full set of their books, plus a little leaflet with the latest ones, and it's not there - not really up to their standard anyway.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 05:15 AM

ps the little leaflet is not the latest. ya must have missed the bit about their unpublished songs

"Lots More from the IN Tray" was issued in 2000 & Bob Bolton & I have a larger version. He enlarged it to booklet size, gave it a pale green cover, & added a line of text (If they printed it a decent size, it would not have been filched from) above the publication details.

Shiny Bums @ The Dog

I just spoke to occasional Mudcatter Canberra Chis (Father of Shiny Bums) & he said this song wasn't one of theirs. I might suggest he write a Shiny Bum version next week when I see him!

sandra

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 10:40 PM

It sounded like one of theirs, but I decided I'd wait and see...

I am ex-Telstra/Telecom/PMG.... ;-)

anyone remember the play "Flextime"?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 11:13 PM

Sandra, despite the fact that I am not one of the privileged few to own a copy of their unpublished songs, I still didn't think it was clever enough to be one of theirs, and it appears I was right.

I don't remember the play you mentioned Robin, but the Bums have a song "Wild Flexi-time" to the tune of "Wild Mountain Thyme".

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 11:21 PM

G'day Fooles ...

There had to be an excuse for the Piano Accordion Mania ;-) ...!

I guess this is a generalisation, but we seem to have had three distinct "waves" of (~) German immigration if the 1800s:

1: The 'religious / economic' refugees of the 1830s. Scottish Presbyterian Settlement Societies sent all these lovely wine-growing types to South Australia - and sent dour Scots Presbyterians to New Zealand ... Hey, we're not complaining!

2: In the 1860s it was definitely refugees, getting away from Bismarck's Prussian thugs. Many came to South Australia - and found that Uncle Hans (&c) had already got all the nice vine-growing land - so they trekked (often having built their own 'trekking carts' ... what the Yanks think are Amurican covered wagons) up the Murray / Murrimbidgee River systems and pioneered much of our Riverina.

3: The final refugees, as Bismarck conquered ... sorry ... united Germany came out in the 1880s ... and seem to have gone further north ... lots of their descendants around Toowoomba, these days.

I guess your 'German' maternal Grandfather and my 'English' paternal Grandfather marched along parrallel paths ... in both World Stoushes! Granddad came to Aussie, from the Manchester region, soon after his Dad died in 1910. He was made to work through his carpentry apprenticeship, before enlisting - then sailed with the Light Horse. It became clear this wasn't a cavalry war - not in Europe, anyway - and they were retrained as artillery ... so he came back as a Gunner / Driver.

He stayed in the Reserves (Artillery) and was straight back in for 1938 ... served with anti-Naval guns at Fremantle, then trained in Ordinance ... then was sent to guard Hay Prison Camp. He was senior non-com at Hay, at the time of the Japanese breakout from Cowra. (And, in my photographic employment, I worked worked with the bloke who was senior non-com at Cowra during the break-out!)

Regards,

Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 02:30 AM

Oops!

Mudcat went missing ... and I had to save my text ...

... then I came back and put it in the wrong thread ... I'll put it where it should be ...

Then I'll go back to trying to remember why I have to take Gingko Biloba ...

Regard(les)s,

Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 04:50 AM

Bob Bolton!


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 04:54 AM

Actually Bob Bobton, I think you insulted me in the wrong thread, thus doing it twice.

So now Karma reigns again....

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:37 AM

G'day again Fooles,

What insult? ... I'm a button accordion player - and if that doesn't offend sufficiently, I can always dust off my lagerphone!

(BTW: I've been intrigued to fill n some of the gaps and side-paths of the lagerphone's ancestry ... with definite evidence of contributuions to the lineage by the German Teufelsgeige (aka the Czech Stumpfidel) a European (~) 'sistrum' with additional prot-lagerphone characteristics: rubber buffer for better bounce, notched striker stick, grotesque devil's or soldier's head, extra sounding bits such as old tambourines.)

Regards,

Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: Snuffy
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 07:02 PM

"notched striker stick"? You mean half of a pair of washing tongs freed from its metal bondage?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: GUEST,Allen in Oz
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 08:57 PM

Foolestroupe

I saw the play " Flextime" in Sydney...it was brilliant.

There was a follow up play which was not as funny ( can't remember its name)

AD 1943

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:20 PM

G'day Snuffy,

The "notched striker stick" is usually ust a length of whatever comes to hand ... with a few saw-cuts to created a serrated edge. I prefer to get a good piece of hardwood (ideally an Australian spotted gum: apparently "coryimbia maculata", these days, engineer's hammer handle) gently indented with a small rasp then sanded dead smooth.

This has a firm striking sound with minimal damage to the lagerphone's main stick. If you keep beating away with a crudely notched stick, you will end up sawing the bloody lagerphone in half - then you'll have to build another one!

That said, any (surplus ... ?) wooden object with the right profile could be used ... as long as it wasn't part of your wife's washday kit ... unless you want to be lumbered with next weekend's washing.

Regards,

Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: GUEST,Rowan
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 06:32 PM

Greetings Bob,
For Australian spotted gum: apparently "coryimbia maculata" try, instead Corymbia maculata, italicised as you so properly do. Wretched taxonomists! They're all wanting to get a PhD or improve their publication ratings and so many of them do it by moving familiar landmarks.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 08:05 PM

G'day Rowan,

Sorry about the 'error'. I grabbed it off a site that came up in a Google search ... and the error may be my typing - or theirs. I was probably distracted by the background noise of gnashing teeth (... mine!) I share your feelings about modern taxonomy.

(I must admit that some of it may well be valid - splitting of species based on the new insights of DNA analysis, for instance.)

That doesn't make it any easier when all my favourite texts become obsolete!

Regards,

Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: rich-joy
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 10:06 PM

I still like the Oz Anthem to "that" chune, that Campbell the Swaggie does SO well.
The words are fairly easy : just sing "more beer" all the way through. Works a treat!

We had the whole of the room at ABOFOTS ("A Bit of Folk on the Side", in Maleny) up singing it with much passion and hand on heart (and about half of us don't even like beer!!!!!!)

:~)))


Cheers! R-J

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: JennyO
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 01:45 PM

Wot chune is that, rich-joy? We sing "more beer" to "Amazing Grace" around these parts.

While the Shiny Bums don't have a song to the tune of "Advance Australia Fair" (as far as I know), they do have their Rugby song, to the tune of "I Am Australian"

"We are large, but we are stupid
And from all the rugby lands we come
With leather balls, and silly headgear
I am, youse are, we are the rugby ones."

I particularly like the Sensitive New Age Cowpersons' version of the National Anthem, with everything thrown in and muddled up -

"Waltzing Matilda, in there and fight,
With Skippy the bush kangaroo,
Skippy, true blue.
God save our queen." etc etc

Speaking of Campbell the Swaggie, haven't seen him for a while...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem
From: GUEST,Rowan
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 06:07 PM

My daughters (encouraged by their father, I might add) lose no opportunity to sing the SNAC's version of the National Anthem which, for those who might want to know, is on their CD Strange on the Range. Don't cry for me Argentina and Country Roads will never be the same, for me.

Cheers, Rowan