The ROOT! Compendium - Lyrics

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I Still Call Australia 'HO!'

Welcome to Australia the wide brown land
Where we speak American^[1]
Girls are divas, guys are players
In the juice bar, what's your flavour?

Offence and defence, set and play
Corporate bonding on your weekend away
Time-share^[2], seminar, self-motivation
Where your first step is always litigation

HO! (ho)
HO! (ho)
Woah no (woah)
HO! (ho)

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains^[3]
And good old Aussie sporting names,
West Coast Eagles; House of Pain

Deck Dogs and wigger knobs, Halloween and hot dogs
Get your Apple iPod
We're suburban, get your Coke-a-Cola mix with some bourbon

HO! (ho)
HO! (ho)
Woah no (woah)
HO! (ho)

I got a predisposition for opposition to this tradition, willing coalition
But what would I know? I still call Australia 'HO'!^[4]
I can't beleive that we achieved the chance to be reprieved
From being in someone else's Monarchy, and we still voted no!
I still call Australia 'HO!'

I still feel tension when I stand to attention at the mere mention
Of some global bullies intervention, but I guess I'm one of those
I still call Australia -

HO! (ho)
HO! (ho)
Woah no (woah)
HO! (ho)

HO! (ho)
HO! (ho)
Woah no (woah)
HO! (ho)

Information

1) Included in Introducing ROOT!
2) Debuted at The Spanish Club, June 17, 2007.
3) Also known as "Root 66"
4) Thanks to Anonnymoose and BruisesBruisesBruises and Kurt for assistance with these lyrics.

Notes

1) Australians have been critisized, mainly due to the glut of American television, of picking up more American termenology and dropping Australian terms and phrases.
2) Time-share is, essentially, a form of renting where several groups all own the same place (say, a holiday destination) and use it seperately, on a rotating basis.
3) These two lines are from a poem called My Country by Dorothea Mackellar, written way back near the turn of the century (as in the 1900 century, not the 2000 one).
4) "I still call Australia 'HO'!" is a reference to the Peter Allen song, "I Still Call Australia Home".