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Originally Posted by paskatefan
This is one of my favorite national anthems to begin with.
Gail
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I think "Advance Australia Fair" is below average for a national anthem (and as I've said before, it can be sung to the "Gilligan's Island" theme music).
The lyrics, which I consider bland and corny, are as follows:
Australians all, let us rejoice
For we are young and free
We've golden soil and wealth for toil
Our home is girt by sea
Our land abounds in nature's gifts
Of beauty rich and rare
In history's page, let every stage
Advance Australia fair
In joyful strains then, let us sing
Advance Australia fair
Beneath our radiant Southern Cross
We'll toil with hearts and hands
To make this Commonwealth of ours
Renowned of all the lands
For those who've come across 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.
(PS: I wish The Fanatics in tennis audiences wouldn't sing it. Come to think of it, I cringe when they open their collective mouths for any purpose.)