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23 Sep 06 - 07:46 PM (#1841706) Subject: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: The Fooles Troupe 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... |
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23 Sep 06 - 11:59 PM (#1841793) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: GUEST,Rowan I can't be sure and don't wish to incorrectly apportion blame but the Shiny Bum Singers might know about it. Cheers, Rowan |
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24 Sep 06 - 12:14 AM (#1841798) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: GUEST,Nellie Clatt I like it. |
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24 Sep 06 - 01:10 AM (#1841809) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: JennyO 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. |
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24 Sep 06 - 05:15 AM (#1841864) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: Sandra in Sydney 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 ya must have missed the bit about their unpublished songs "Lots More from the IN Tray" was issued in 2000 & Bob Bolton & I have a larger version.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 |
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24 Sep 06 - 10:40 PM (#1842560) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: The Fooles Troupe 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"? |
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24 Sep 06 - 11:13 PM (#1842576) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: JennyO 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". |
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24 Sep 06 - 11:21 PM (#1842581) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: Bob Bolton 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 |
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25 Sep 06 - 02:30 AM (#1842622) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: Bob Bolton 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 |
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25 Sep 06 - 04:50 AM (#1842670) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: The Fooles Troupe Bob Bolton! Phzzzzzzzzzzzzzztttttttttttt! |
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25 Sep 06 - 04:54 AM (#1842673) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: The Fooles Troupe Actually Bob Bobton, I think you insulted me in the wrong thread, thus doing it twice. So now Karma reigns again.... |
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25 Sep 06 - 09:37 AM (#1842838) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: Bob Bolton 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 |
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25 Sep 06 - 07:02 PM (#1843250) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: Snuffy "notched striker stick"? You mean half of a pair of washing tongs freed from its metal bondage? |
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25 Sep 06 - 08:57 PM (#1843300) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: GUEST,Allen in Oz 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 |
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25 Sep 06 - 11:20 PM (#1843381) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: Bob Bolton 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 |
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26 Sep 06 - 06:32 PM (#1844078) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: GUEST,Rowan 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 |
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26 Sep 06 - 08:05 PM (#1844121) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: Bob Bolton 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 |
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26 Sep 06 - 10:06 PM (#1844171) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: rich-joy 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 |
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27 Sep 06 - 01:45 PM (#1844230) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: JennyO 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... |
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27 Sep 06 - 06:07 PM (#1844510) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The NEW Aussie National Anthem From: GUEST,Rowan 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 |