On 23/12/07 1:22 PM, "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Please, Max, could you post the lyrics to "Let us
> Barbecue"?
If you really want to read them, but don't try singing...
Australians Let us Barbeque
Sung to the tune of Advance Australia Fair.
You remember how it goes
"Australian sons let us rejoin,
for we are young and free."
Australians let us Barbeque
For Christmas time is here
We've Christmas pud and t-bone steaks
And slabs of ginger beer
We've gone and got the relies round
And we'll all have a ball
So let's kick back and have ourselves
A Yuletide free-for-all
Our forebears came from distant shores
To set this party up
So we could dine with paper plate
and polystyrene cup
On patterned plastic table cloth
We'll eat our Christmas pies
If our forebears could see us now
They'd not believe their eyes
Across this land in summer sun
In backyards small and great
We'll raise our voice in one accord
With "Merry Christmas Mate!'
In outback heat and city street
And all points in between
Come join with us and celebrate
This Aussie Christmas scene!
With sausages and coleslaw too
Then let us Barbeque.
Author unknown.
> Received last week from Toronto friends (one Swiss,
> one Jamaican) the Trojan 3-CD boxed set of reggae
> Christmas, er, ISMAS, music. Santa Claus here is
> SKA-ING to town, we're wished an IRIE Christmas
> elsewhere, and, according to Yellowman, "Santa Claus
> Never Comes To The Ghetto." (Yellowman also sings
> "Breadfruit Roasting On An Open Fire.") Peter Broggs'
> "Twelve Days of Christmas" gets stuck on number 10.
> John Holt sings, among other memorable tunes, John &
> Yoko's "Happy X-mas (War Is Over)"--if only. This year
> the children of acquaintances are shipping out to both
> Iraq and Afghanistan.
>
> Candice
>
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