Down Under
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About Down Under
"Down Under" is a pop song recorded by Men at Work for their debut album Business as Usual (1981). The song went to #1 on American, British, and Australian charts. It was reissued in 1982, and is the only Men at Work song to go to #1 in the United Kingdom, and their only single to make the UK top 20. It has become a popular and patriotic song in Australia. The lyrics are about an Australian traveler circling the globe, proud of his nationality, .
Down Under Lyrics
[00:11.53] Traveling in a fried-out Kombi
[00:16.20] On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
[00:20.74] I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
[00:25.36] She took me in and gave me breakfast
[00:28.74] And she said
[00:29.68] "Do you come from a land down under
[00:34.24] Where women glow and men plunder?
[00:38.72] Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
[00:42.84] You better run, you better take cover"
[00:45.01]
[00:57.00] Buying bread from a man in Brussels
[01:00.98] He was six-foot-four and full of muscle
[01:06.27] I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
[01:10.32] He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
[01:14.43] And he said
[01:15.33] "I come from a land down under
[01:19.41] Where beer does flow and men chunder
[01:24.10] Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
[01:28.02] You better run, you better take cover, yeah"
[01:32.10]
[01:59.54] Lying in a den in Bombay
[02:04.18] With a slack jaw and not much to say
[02:08.35] I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me?
[02:12.93] Because I come from the land of plenty"
[02:16.32] And he said
[02:17.28] Oh, "Do you come from a land down under? (Oh, yeah-yeah)
[02:19.48]
[02:22.09] Where women glow and men plunder?
[02:26.41] Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
[02:30.44] You better run, you better take cover", 'cause we are
[02:35.46] Living in a land down under
[02:39.86] Where women glow and men plunder (yeah)
[02:44.29] Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? (Thunder)
[02:48.22] You better-better run, you better take cover
[02:53.29] Living in a land down under
[02:57.68] Where women glow and men plunder
[03:02.26] Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? Ooh, yeah
[03:06.24] You better run, you better take cover
[03:10.13] (We are) living in a land down under (ooh, yeah)
[03:15.35] Where women glow and men plunder
[03:19.78] Can't you, can't you hear the thunder? (Can't you, can't you hear the thunder?)
[03:23.86] You better run, you better take cover
[03:25.69] Living in a land down under (living in a land down under)
[03:26.89] Where women glow and men plunder
[03:27.73] Can't you, can't you hear the thunder?
[03:29.17]
[00:16.20] On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
[00:20.74] I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
[00:25.36] She took me in and gave me breakfast
[00:28.74] And she said
[00:29.68] "Do you come from a land down under
[00:34.24] Where women glow and men plunder?
[00:38.72] Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
[00:42.84] You better run, you better take cover"
[00:45.01]
[00:57.00] Buying bread from a man in Brussels
[01:00.98] He was six-foot-four and full of muscle
[01:06.27] I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
[01:10.32] He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
[01:14.43] And he said
[01:15.33] "I come from a land down under
[01:19.41] Where beer does flow and men chunder
[01:24.10] Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
[01:28.02] You better run, you better take cover, yeah"
[01:32.10]
[01:59.54] Lying in a den in Bombay
[02:04.18] With a slack jaw and not much to say
[02:08.35] I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me?
[02:12.93] Because I come from the land of plenty"
[02:16.32] And he said
[02:17.28] Oh, "Do you come from a land down under? (Oh, yeah-yeah)
[02:19.48]
[02:22.09] Where women glow and men plunder?
[02:26.41] Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
[02:30.44] You better run, you better take cover", 'cause we are
[02:35.46] Living in a land down under
[02:39.86] Where women glow and men plunder (yeah)
[02:44.29] Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? (Thunder)
[02:48.22] You better-better run, you better take cover
[02:53.29] Living in a land down under
[02:57.68] Where women glow and men plunder
[03:02.26] Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? Ooh, yeah
[03:06.24] You better run, you better take cover
[03:10.13] (We are) living in a land down under (ooh, yeah)
[03:15.35] Where women glow and men plunder
[03:19.78] Can't you, can't you hear the thunder? (Can't you, can't you hear the thunder?)
[03:23.86] You better run, you better take cover
[03:25.69] Living in a land down under (living in a land down under)
[03:26.89] Where women glow and men plunder
[03:27.73] Can't you, can't you hear the thunder?
[03:29.17]
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