Down Under - Men At Work
Album: Business as Usual
Genre: Pop
Writer: Ron Strykert, Colin Hay
Released: November, 1982
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Down Under was used as soundtrack for the movie Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles starring Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski. The song talks about an Australian traveler who feels so proud for his nationality and his interactions with other people he meets who are interested in his home country. For that reason, the single become a patriotic song in Australia and very popular one around the world. It made part from the debut album of Men at Work, titled Business as Usual, an album with a big success which they won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1983. Down Under was voted #96 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s. The band was active until 2001.
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?
Can’t you hear, can’t 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
Can’t you hear, can’t 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?
Can’t you hear, can’t 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?
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover”.
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