Sunday, January 6, 2008
Saturday, January 5, 2008
I still call Australia home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRIIxRQjmbk
Peter Allen, wrote a very patriotic song, "I Still Call Australia Home", which became the "signature song" of Qantas. In this 3-minute commercial, some of Australia's renowned singers (Kate Cerebrano, Jack Jones, James Blundell, just to name a few) sing this very patriotic song, as a tribute to the national airline. Watch it for the beauty of the images, the voices, the world-wide landscape and its exotism. And aviation fans, save your breath for the final 30 seconds featuring magnificent Qantas B747 air-to-air footage.
True Blue-John Williamson
John is a renowned Australian country music singer/songwriter.
Recorded live in concert
QUOTE:
"John Williamson's song True Blue is a lament of a vanishing culture. True Blue is, again, an extension of the Aussie bushman, the rugged, quiet, dependable "good bloke" of the post-war years. He's a hero made in the image of Australians of Anglo-Celtic heritage -- those who value honest, hard work and decent, principled conduct.
You can say a lot about True Blue but we know he wasn't a skiter. And he wouldn't dob his mates in either -- and how far that can be morally correct we presume he knows. We pray he's not like those frontier squatters and their "conspiracy of silence" about the massacre of natives.
True Blue is fair dinkum, reliable and always does the "right thing". He's the bloke who comes along on a miserable day when you're broken down and stranded. And nothing is too much trouble for him. He's seen plenty. He's not flash; he'll tie it up with wire and get you going. Probably make you laugh too."
(Quote from article by Neil Murray, The Age, Saturday 6 July 2002)
Land Down Under
The number one hit from the famous Australian band men at work and the secret hymn of Australia.
We Are Australian
LYRICS
[1]
I came from the dreamtime from the dusty red soil plains
I am the ancient heart, the keeper of the flame
I stood upon the rocky shore
I watched the tall ships come
For forty thousand years I'd been the first Australian.
[2]
I came upon the prison ship bowed down by iron chains.
I cleared the land, endured the lash and waited for the rains.
I'm a settler.
I'm a farmer's wife on a dry and barren run
A convict then a free man I became Australian.
[3]
I'm the daughter of a digger who sought the mother lode
The girl became a woman on the long and dusty road
I'm a child of the depression
I saw the good times come
I'm a bushy, I'm a battler
I am Australian
[chorus]
We are one, but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We share a dream and sing with one voice:
I am, you are, we are Australian
I am, you are, we are Australian.
[4]
I'm a teller of stories
I'm a singer of songs
I am Albert Namatjira
I paint the ghostly gums
I am Clancy on his horse
I'm Ned Kelly on the run
I'm the one who waltzed Matilda
I am Australian
[5]
I'm the hot wind from the desert
I'm the black soil of the plains
I'm the mountains and the valleys
I'm the drought and flooding rains
I am the rock, I am the sky
The rivers when they run
The spirit of this great land
I am Australian
[chorus]
We are one, but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We share a dream and sing with one voice:
I am, you are, we are Australian
I am, you are, we are Australian.
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