You wouldn't have seen Ned Kelly
Quivering like a jelly
Or shivering in his shoes with fear
At any tu-whit tu-whoos he might hear.
Not ned,
Instead
He'd have swaggered on by with a sneer.
And why?
He was an Aussie,
Was he?
He was.
And for an Aussie it's easy because
Aussies know.
Know what?
They're Australian.
So what?
Well, fear to an Australian is alien.
They're not from Sweden or Switzerland or Swaziland
But from Aussieland
From Oz
No-one had nerve like Neddy
He's never have been unsteady
Or ever begun to sway then swoon
Whenever a wolf was baying at the moon
Not he
Like me
He'd have merrily whistled a tune
Like this?
(that was a wolf-whistle)
He was an Aussie,
Was he?
He was.
And for an Aussie it's easy because
Aussies know.
Know what?
They're Australian.
So what?
Well, fear to an Australian is alien.
They're not from Sweden or Switzerland or Swaziland
But from Aussieland
From Oz
Not from the Netherlands, New Zealand or another land
But from the fatherland, or is it motherland?
The land of Nellie Melba and Joan Sutherland
From Aussieland,
From Oz!