Aussies please answer?

Do you like our national Anthem? if not, what would you prefer?


I personally like I love a sunburnt country, it has been set to music by Jackie Tent and Tony Hatch
Aussies please answer?
I THINK A SUNBURNT COUNTRY
Aussies please answer?
I love it very much. Well you can sing that sunburnt country whilst the rest will sing Advance Australia Fair!!!!
Reply:I think our National Anthem is boring....an anthem is supposed to provoke feelings of pride and patriotism......ours just sends us to sleep! The fact that a lot of people don't even know the words proves that!





I think Waltzing Mathilda would be a better choice.
Reply:I love our national anthem better when both verses are sung.... The second verse of the official lyrics is much more powerfully patriotic than the first.. though I am glad we dropped the middle verse of the original lyrics.





Advance Australia Fair - The official version





Australians all let us rejoice,


For we are young and free;


We've golden soil and wealth for toil,


Our home is girt by sea;


Our land abounds in Nature's gifts


Of beauty rich and rare;


In history's page, let every stage


Advance Australia fair!


In joyful strains then let us sing,


"Advance Australia fair!"





Beneath our radiant Southern Cross,


We'll toil with hearts and hands;


To make this Commonwealth of ours


Renowned of all the lands;


For those who've come across the seas


We've boundless plains to share;


With courage let us all combine


To advance Australia fair.


In joyful strains then let us sing


"Advance Australia fair!"








My Country, by Dorothea Mackellar would have to drop its first verse to be a national anthem... because the first verse, the one a lot of people dont know is about england...





My Country








The love of field and coppice,


Of green and shaded lanes.


Of ordered woods and gardens


Is running in your veins,


Strong love of grey-blue distance


Brown streams and soft dim skies


I know but cannot share it,


My love is otherwise.





I love a sunburnt country,


A land of sweeping plains,


Of ragged mountain ranges,


Of droughts and flooding rains.


I love her far horizons,


I love her jewel-sea,


Her beauty and her terror -


The wide brown land for me!





A stark white ring-barked forest


All tragic to the moon,


The sapphire-misted mountains,


The hot gold hush of noon.


Green tangle of the brushes,


Where lithe lianas coil,


And orchids deck the tree-tops


And ferns the warm dark soil.





Core of my heart, my country!


Her pitiless blue sky,


When sick at heart, around us,


We see the cattle die -


But then the grey clouds gather,


And we can bless again


The drumming of an army,


The steady, soaking rain.





Core of my heart, my country!


Land of the Rainbow Gold,


For flood and fire and famine,


She pays us back threefold -


Over the thirsty paddocks,


Watch, after many days,


The filmy veil of greenness


That thickens as we gaze.





An opal-hearted country,


A wilful, lavish land -


All you who have not loved her,


You will not understand -


Though earth holds many splendours,


Wherever I may die,


I know to what brown country


My homing thoughts will fly.








Dorothea Mackellar














But basically I am happy with Advance Australia Fair





And um Waltzing Matilda is a song about vagrant who steals a sheep and then commits suicide to evade capture by the police... not the stuff national anthems are made of...