The Bushwackers "I Am Australian"

[@shyngo]

There ain’t a shred of Aussie in me, but this song always makes me tear up. 😢❤

[@taniabrougham2768]

I just watched them on the voice and they still have it 😊

[@Tubatoofpaste]

The passionate way the band perform here shows that I am Australian is a perfect song for an Australian anthem

[@laurieduncan4148]

Fantastic song ...sung by an Australian legend who wrote the song. He sang this at my brother in law’s memorial recently... they played cricket together. Yes, it definitely should be our anthem

[@jackthomson5618]

Definitely should be our Anthem.

[@alexcrawfordguitar9361]

Co-Written with Bruce Woodley of The Seekers

[@RonLee999]

Like so many others Australians, I believe that this should be our national anthem.

[@red5llaw]

I'm a Scots Irish Celt AUSTRALIAN and this music calls to me!!

[@moffat5914]

your'e as bad as the Americans

[@CJM60]

👏👏👏Absolutely awesome!🙌 Though I am an immigrant to Australia, this song always makes me feel like a true blue Aussie. Though it isn’t the national anthem, it’s my Aussie National Anthem. Thank You, Dobe, Bruce and Bushwackers.❤️🇦🇺

[@andrewwhite4372]

A real delight to stumble across this performance. Many would agree that without the Bushwackers, Aussie colonial / trad folk wouldn't have made it past the 1970s. The song - Aussie sentimentality hot'n'strong.

[@mitchelljack1590]

How is this not our Anthem?

[@Virtual_pie976]

I agree

[@sharonmcloughlin]

It should be. Unofficially it is I guess

[@stephenchristoffel2850]

Hmmm. You tell me.

[@z0rbathegreek]

This should be our national anthem

[@Mischa_Tye]

Fuckin oath, excuse the French.. this song has me crying. Good tears though ❤❤

[@geoffreyhansen8543]

This is an excellent version of the song.

[@georgemununny9614]

My uncle made this song (dobe Newton)

[@pode74]

This song fills my heart for my country and its people...not like the other stupid song we have sung forever

[@juliemacdonald6572]

I must say I do prefer the standard order of the verses, popularised by the Seekers, if only because that way if feels as if it’s telling the story of Australia from past to present, but Dobe sings it with such passion and feeling, you just feel regret at missing the verses, then joy to realise he has placed them in a different way. An amazing performance, told by a true storyteller, as an immigrant who has become Australian, and having two daughters who are so proud to have been born Australian, not to mention a person who feels songs very deeply, this song has me in tears every time I listen to it. I do like our national anthem, but I think this song would not only be sung with pride, but with genuine feelings that the singer can relate to the words. I would certainly join the chorus to make this our national anthem, I think in the hearts of most people it already is.

[@stephenchristoffel2850]

Dobe co.wrote this song with Bruce Woodley from the Seekers.

[@jeffmason5148]

The first 2 versus he sings he wrote for the composition so my guess why he puts them at beginning but who knows

[@tomword5619]

Wow what an amazing song.

[@madinad2014]

Wouah fantastic song indeed!

[@michelleleece6998]

Just brilliant!!

[@douglaspell1506]

Used to play cricket with Dobe in the 49ers, great bloke!

[@FirstLast-qf1df]

I love the intro

[@tegg02]

Great to hear this rendition of this superb song sung with a Aussie accent and style. The Seeker versions are great but there voices are very sort of refined upper English pompous accents. This the real Aussie style.

[@brontewcat]

The Seekers are Australian as the Bushwhackers. To say anything else is a form of snobbishness.

[@flamingfrancis]

Listen and compare this version to that presented by Bruce Woodley. Bruce has a great vrsion performed with his daughter Claire at the Victorian Bushfies Victims Concert. These are the two men who composed the verses. Also note that Dobe' and Bushies version does not start with the first verse so the reference to the First Australians is missing. They are from different backgrounds musically but that is also the mesage of the song.

[@gafpa]

Sadly, the first verse is missing I came from the dream-time From the dusty red-soil plains I am the ancient heart The keeper of the flame I stood upon the rocky shores I watched the tall ships come For forty thousand years I've been The first Australian

[@roblowe48]

It's there at around 3 minutes in. Dobe changed the order of the verses for this performance. It's his song, so I guess he has the right

[@robertmccoy1743]

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[@dracodavidius3583]

Is that Dobe Newton singing?

[@flamingfrancis]

Indeed it is and we can also thank him for co-writing this masterpiece of Aussie music...what a ripper.

[@georgemununny9614]

Yep and my uncle

[@stephenchristoffel2850]

YES. IT IS.

[@acohen1980]

WOW.......

[@JBurdoo]

Are these the same as the 70s'-80s Bushwackers band?

[@taniabrougham2768]

I husband says the government should use this song for the coming election instead of John farnhams song cause no matter what our heritage is we are all one no matter what

[@kennedoleary2924]

ditto

[@paulnorton2885]

I hope nobody thinks that I have been disrespectful towards this excellent song by using it as the basis of a song parody about the Murdoch tabloid in the one newspaper town that I live in.

[@paulnorton2885]

Here is the first verse and chorus of the parody: You've been reading us with breakfast for at least a hundred years And the smudging of our newsprint is the smallest of our smears If you think that people who don't look like you should be in jail We've got everything for you and yours, we're the Mediocre Mail Chorus: We are owned by one of three men And he soon will be one of just two And he hates the lower classes We're your paper - the Mediocre Mail.

[@paulnorton2885]

We maintain our circulation by exciting base desires We've a staff of alcoholics, demagogues and cunning liars And incompetent sub-editors whose grammar often fails But we like to do things different at the Mediocre Mail Chorus: We are trite and full of trivia And distract you from important things We'll fill your head with stuff and nonsense We're your paper - the Mediocre Mail

[@paulnorton2885]

And final verse and chorus: We support God and free enterprise and we fight the evil Reds And we do it all the easy way by libelling the dead We believe in one Australia where the Right and whites prevail And our title is our audience - the Mediocre Male CHORUS: We are crass and unenlightened And your prejudices we'll confirm We'll feed your fears and fan your hatreds We're your paper - the Mediocre Mail We are, you are, the Mediocre Male

[@jackthomson5618]

GONE

[@jackthomson5618]

This is for a Australia ,which has virtually gone. When Australia was virtually Anglo Saxons and European. Nobody thrn would have imagined what has happened. Millions of Chinese ,Indians ,Muslims Asians Sudanese ect. Most of whom would not understand ,that Australia. Sadly in 50-70 years Australia will be a ASIAN COUNTRY. Great Song though . As said that Australia has hone

[@evonnemccausland3531]

Are we...RACIST??? If you aren't Aboriginal, you came from immigrants or criminals!!! I'm American, but I come from immigrants!!! Embracing other cultures is how the world ends wars!!!

[@rachelhenderson2688]

"From ALL the lands on earth we come......... I am an 81-year-old Englishwoman, and I just loved this song from the moment I first heard it. We visited Australia, and I fell in love with it. As soon as I heard this song, I thought it was perfect for Australia. I would play it every day, but it would send my poor husband mad! May Australia prosper!

[@omenlaxmi]

To be fair, the aboriginals also thought the same when the first fleet arrived 😂😂😂 I don't think race is an issue, as long as people respect the local culture and live in harmony.

[@jackthomson5618]

@@omenlaxmi I doubt whether they thought that way at all All different tribes. Stone Age Society. In 60,000 years the height of there advancement. Bark Huts ,living in the dirt. Cannibalism infractacide. They have lostt nothing And gained everything

[@edwinwan02]

Australia becoming an Asian country? Well I'm Asian, that sounds great to me 😎