Redgum - H.M.A.S. Australia

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Song Lyrics

Here I am again in the ship`s post office
I want to send a telegram
Send it to the captain
Asking where the hell I am

I`ve been on this luxury cruise
For twenty five years or more
And I`ve just begun to wonder
Where we`re headed for

Band keeps playing American songs from 1973
Getting wise to the officer's lies
That we`ve even got a country
You say we`re independent
And we`ve even got the right to choose
Well we`re sick of doing nothing
We`d like some work,
We`d like some work,
We`d like some work to do

Swimming pools, the cocktail parties
You keep us plied with drink
But when we cruised through South East Asia
It made us stop and think

We never take on passengers
Though we seem to have lots of room
And I can`t escape the notion captain
That this is a floating tomb

Band keeps playing American songs from 1973
Getting wise to the officer's lies
That we`ve even got a country
You say we`re independent
And we`ve even got the right to choose
Well we`re sick of doing nothing
We`d like some work,
We`d like some work,
We`d like some work to do

Some of us have calculated
We must be short of oil
Someone mentioned fission
And blood began to boil

The passengers are restless, captain
This is how they feel
Angry at how it came to be you
Who sits beside the wheel

Band keeps playing American songs from 1973
Getting wise to the officer's lies
That we`ve even got a country
You say we`re independent
And we`ve even got the right to choose
Well we`re sick of doing nothing
We`d like some work,
We`d like some work,
We`d like some work to do

And the band keeps playing the Imperial Waltz From far across the sea
Not a long way from discontent
To open mutiny
You say we`re independent
And we`ve even got the right to choose
Well we`re sick of being passengers,
We`ve got some work,
We`ve got some work,
We`ve got some work to do

Release History

01 January 1978

If You Don't Fight You Lose

1. One More Boring Night In Adelaide (3:07)
2. Carrington Cabaret (3:24)
3. Critique In G (2:20)
4. Beaumont Rag (2:31)
5. Peter The Cabby (2:58)
6. H.M.A.S. Australia (4:41)
7. Raggin' (3:26)
8. So Goodbye (5:03)
9. Poor Ned (2:48)
10. Killing Floor (3:30)
11. Letter To B.J. (3:19)
12. Servin Usa (2:11)

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The Essential

1. Poor Ned (2:48)
2. Servin Usa (2:11)
3. Killing Floor (3:30)
4. Beaumont Rag (2:31)
5. One More Boring Night In Adelaide (3:07)
6. Carrington Cabaret (3:24)
7. H.M.A.S. Australia (4:41)
8. Maria (3:06)
9. Ted (4:13)
10. It Doesn't Matter To Me (2:57)
11. Virgin Ground (4:30)
12. Domination Quickstep (2:20)
13. Stewie (4:00)
14. Nuclear Cop (2:31)
15. Long Run (2:57)
16. 100 Years On (3:49)
17. Brown Rice And Kerosene (2:22)
18. Lear Jets Over Kulgera (3:24)
19. The Last Frontier - Live Version (3:53)
20. Where Ya Gonna Run To (3:44)
21. Caught In The Act (2:28)
22. Yarralumla Wine (2:31)
23. The Federal Two-Ring Circus (3:42)
24. Working Girls (4:40)
25. Fabulon (2:07)
26. The Diamantina Drover (4:32)
27. I Was Only 19 (A Walk In the Light Green) (4:19)
28. I've Been To Bali Too (3:45)
29. ASIO (4:14)
30. Friday Night (3:08)
31. Spirit Of The Land (4:54)
32. Gladstone Pier (7:44)
33. Still Life (3:43)
34. Just Another Moment On Your Own (4:23)
35. The Drover's Dog (3:13)
36. Running With The Hurricane (3:49)
37. When Your Luck Ran Out (5:51)
38. Blood Upon The Rain (4:24)