Post by Shadout Mapes on Nov 12, 2008 19:01:45 GMT -5
Even just a few years ago we couldn't have done this, but thanks to www.YouTube.com and stuff there's lots of foreign stuff we can study!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrPyv0osQM
The music video is awful. I always thought that the song was very good and was about something much greater and larger about Australia and it's peoples, culture and its rise in popularity with all things Aussie, and even Vegemite etc.
I was totally lost about what the lyrics were actually trying to be abouting in this song, and until now I never saw them or their videos either!
Men-At-Work / Land Down Under - Vegemite Sandwich
Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,
Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Cant you hear, cant you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.
Buying bread from a man in brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, do you speak-a my language?
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,
I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Cant you hear, cant you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.
Lying in a den in bombay
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the man, are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?
And he said,
Oh! do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Cant you hear, cant you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.
I still don't get it though, I'm disappointed too.
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Tomasina ChicaWolverina!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrPyv0osQM
The music video is awful. I always thought that the song was very good and was about something much greater and larger about Australia and it's peoples, culture and its rise in popularity with all things Aussie, and even Vegemite etc.
I was totally lost about what the lyrics were actually trying to be abouting in this song, and until now I never saw them or their videos either!
Men-At-Work / Land Down Under - Vegemite Sandwich
Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,
Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Cant you hear, cant you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.
Buying bread from a man in brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, do you speak-a my language?
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,
I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Cant you hear, cant you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.
Lying in a den in bombay
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the man, are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?
And he said,
Oh! do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Cant you hear, cant you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.
I still don't get it though, I'm disappointed too.
><
Tomasina ChicaWolverina!