GONNA GET PISSED TONIGHT
Putting on the wobbly boot
Burger egg with hot beet root
Four X, V-B, Carlton cold
Breckie slabs or so I’m told
Chicko rolls, mate, steak and kidney
Fair dinkum, nightlife’s best in Sidney
Stone the crows, no worries, mate
Brisbane Bitter by the crate
Gonna get pissed tonight!
Oi! Oi! Oi!
Emus, ‘roos, and Holden cars
Getting pissed is best by far
Gonna get pissed tonight!
Oi! Oi! Oi!
Come on, Yabbo, shout a round
Seppo, put that Foster’s down
Powers, Bitters, Coopers Ale
Schooners in Lord Nelson’s Jail
Good on ya mates, gags and yawns
Boutique beers with bugs and prawns
Ocker Aussies, skins and punks
Pig’s ear pissed and blowin’ chunks
Gonna get pissed tonight!
Oi! Oi! Oi!
Emus, ‘roos, and Holden cars
Getting pissed is best by far
Gonna get pissed tonight!
Oi! Oi! Oi!
Toohey’s newest in your glass
Aussies all are kicking ass
Swilling piss, it’s foot season
Drinking quality has reason
Top drop all, our dinner’s tossed
Rat coffins, dipped in sauce
Like Vauxhall Vivas, lives packed
Tear up the down, then get sacked
Gonna get pissed tonight!
Oi! Oi! Oi!
Emus, ‘roos, and Holden cars
Getting pissed is best by far
Gonna get pissed tonight!
Oi! Oi! Oi!
BACK IN OZ
Sorry ockers, fokkers, chockers
Bog on in, don’t hesitate
Barry Crocker, “What a shocker!”
Gonna cop it, get home late
Cheese and kisses, meet the Misses
Drier than a Pommie’s towel
Hope your chooks turn into emus
And they kick your dunny down!
Apples, pears, up the stairs
Al Capone, get the phone
Captain Cook, have a look
Things are crook in Tallarook
Baby, baby, back in Oz again!
Skin and blister, how’s your sister?
Right toe rag, full on mate!
How’s the wife? Trouble and strife?
Brahms or Lizst, man, pick your fate
Gin and tonic, supersonic
Uncle Bob’s grabbed his knob
Merchant banker, wot a wanker
Bloke’s a nutter, what a yob!
Dog and bone, drop the phone
Michael Caine’s missed the train
Come ‘round home, Pope’s in Rome
Telly’s busted, wot a pain!
Baby, baby, back in Oz again!
God forbid, where’s that kid?
What’s that noise? Box of toys
Lemon squasher, window washer
Faith and hope, dropped the soap
Manhole cover, he’s me bruver
Nat King Cole on the dole
Fine and dandy, spot of brandy
Jackson Pollocks, bust me bollocks
Take a dump, Forrest Gump
Take a pee, Brenda Lee
Horse and cart, wot a prick
Hampton Wick, wot a prick
Baby, baby, back in Oz again
EMPTY PROMISES
Poor man’s on his soapbox
Government has cloth ears
The money-flushed politicos
Fan the flames of fear!
The arrogant ideologues
Are cloistered in arrears
A gentleman’s agreement
To stick it to the queers
Empty promises children, let us pray
Empty promises, join in the melee
Empty promises, banker’s holiday
Forswearing prophylaxis
And subsequential deeds
Integral question, ask us
The hunger no one feeds
Less than concrete actions
With armour no one needs
Fascistic fighting factions
A warring no one heeds
Empty promises, all the children say
Empty promises, make somebody pay
Empty promises, give a dog his day
Shouldering the burden
Of Stonewall’s legacy
Dionysus certain
Disparagement for free
An Africa of slogans
Sift through a pile of Chad
Fifty years with no gains
A feeling you’ve been had
Empty promises, take your final breath
Empty promises, politics won’t rest
Empty promises, silence equals death
RECORDED 15 NOVEMBER 2002