we're different from americans

we're different from the brits

we're not a sundried drover

nor have his irish wit

we're not in rome or athens

or in south china sea

but we need to know just who we were

and who we're gunnabe

we've surfed as young brown surfers

and sampled bohemian life

we're more loyal to our children

than to husband or to wife

we've heard of cows for milking

picked tomatoes...off the shelves

shipping out excellent produce

we should export to ourselves

work's a different place now

company patter that we hear

we mouth it off unconsciously

to a hypnotized public ear

we listen or watch the abc

to take a view outside

but rushing in at seven

tunes us in to "who just died"

we listen to the half an hour

where there might have been some news

religiously rivetted 6 days a week

on sundays empty pews

the queen has been

the president waits

the ordinary don't care

entertain me! whisper-my-ear!

I'll follow you anywhere

our pound's a dollar

just as well

now the euro's in the till

a dollar, a dollar will always be

the american dollar will

US blood-lust

shall we take him out?

yes that's what we shall do

but criticise yanks gingerly

they killed our enemies too

history eroded

ideas, those jewels are few

but what we've done

will never outshine

what we're gunnadoo

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