>>> Subject: FW: The Constitution - post amble
>>>The Post-Amble
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>>> >>I love a sunscreened country
>>> >>Its ranks of unemployed
>>> >>Its eyesores built by Seidler
>>> >>Its art by Arthur Boyd
>>> >>Our kids are all drug addicts
>>> >>Our businessmen are crooks
>>> >>Our pollies are a bunch of clowns
>>> >>Who couldn't raffle chooks.
>>> >>But that is our tradition
>>> >>We're rugged and we're tough
>>> >>And because we live in paradise
>>> >>We couldn't give a stuff.
>>> >>When first we came from England
>>> >>We stole it from the blacks
>>> >>And now we won't apologise
>>> >>In case they want it back.
>>> >>But we have a great vision
>>> >>A great Australian dream
>>> >>For every bloke a barbie,
>>> >>Two cars, a football team.
>>> >>A fenced-off yard with dogs in
>>> >>Or else a harbour view;
>>> >>A school to put the sprogs in
>>> >>And after, a dole queue.
>>> >>And how I love the mateship
>>> >>What Australia's all about
>>> >>And no, it's not corruption,
>>> >>We just help each other out.
>>> >>For we're battlers and we're bludgers
>>> >>We'll fight for a fair go
>>> >>We're drinkers and we're drivers
>>> >>And we always will be so.
>>> >>And pity help the bastard
>>> >>Who runs this country down
>>> >>For like the tallest poppy
>>> >>They'll soon be brought to ground.
>>> >>So forget your Constitution,
>>> >>Forget your plebiscite;
>>> >>Don't fret about the future,
>>> >>We are Aussies - she'll be right.
>>> >
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>>> dcoutts@pcug.org.au
>>> (Don Coutts) ,--_/\
>>> Canberra ACT / \
>>> Australia \_,--\_/<-149 degrees 10' E
>>> v 35 degrees 20' S
>>> Alt. 640m
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