From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Subject: "Advance Australia Fair" (was: "Waltzing Matilda" lyrics??)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:04:11 GMT


In article <9223910.16786@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> noi@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Nittida Nuansri) writes:

>Could someone post its (Advance Australia fair) lyrics too?


There was a rather lengthy and involved discussion on this subject last May,
which I have summarized below:


Verse one was posted by Phil.Watson@newcastle.ac.uk (P. Watson) [with
spelling corrections later posted by sgcclmj@citec.oz.au (Liz Jones)]:

     Australians all let us rejoice,
     For we are young and free
     With golden soil and wealth for toil
     Out home is girt by sea
     Our land abounds in nature's gifts
     Of beauty rich and rare
     In history's page, at every stage
     Advance Australia Fair
     With joyful strains then let us sing,
     'Advance Australia Fair.'

Verse two was posted by king@qut.edu.au (who thought it was the third
verse):

     When gallant Cook from Albion sailed,
     To trace wide oceans o'er,
     True British courage bore him on,
     'till he landed on our shore,
     There he raised old England's flag,
     The standard of the brave,
     For all her faults,
     We love her still,
     Brittania Rules the Waves

02h@oasys.dt.navy.mil (CDR Fred C. Wyse) referred to _World_War_Songs_,
by Aleterp Publications, (text copyright 1983 by J. Albert & Son, Pty.,
Ltd., 139 King St., Sydney, Australia.) which he says corroborates the
first two verses posted and adds two more:

     Beneath our radiant Southern Cross,
     We'll toil with hearts and hands
     To make our youthful Commonwealth
     Renowned of all the lands,
     For loyal sons beyond the seas,
     We've boundless plains to share:
     With courage let us all combine
     To advance Australia fair.
     In joyful strains then let us sing
     'Advance Australia fair.'

     Should foreign foe e'er sight our coast,
     Or dare a foot to land,
     We'll rouse to arms like sires of yore
     To guard our native strand;
     Britannia then shall surely know
     Beyond wide ocean's roll,
     Her sons in fair Australia's land
     Still keep a British soul.
     In joyful strains then let us sing
     'Advance Australia fair.'

He also notes:

     Verse one starts, "Australia's *sons* let us rejoice ....".  I
     recall the sexism was neutered when PM Hawke formally announced the
     new national anthem in 1985 or thereabouts. 8-)!


andrewd@ecr.mu.oz.au (Andrew_John DISSELDORP) added that the version he
sang in school had the verse starting "Beneath our radiant Southern
Cross" as the second verse, with the following variations:

     To make this Commonwealth of ours

for the third line of the verse, as opposed to "To make our youthful
Commonwealth" and

     For those who've come across the seas

for the fifth line, as opposed to "For loyal sons beyond the seas,"


esc149u@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au (mr  sjd  cox) added that the Melbourne
_Age_ had recently run an alternate version:


     Australians all let us rejoice
     And let's kill everyone
     And poke them all in both their eyes
     And kick them up the bum

     And poke them all with pointy knives
     And smite them all most sore
     And bullets should they suffer too
     And more, and more, and more.

     In nationalism's name we must
     Kill until we are,
     A country based on feelings strong
     Oh Xen-oh-phob-ia!


kimba@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Michael Newton) added that his little brother used
to sing:

     Australian sunset ostrich oil...