Man Down Under

The hit song went to number one in their home country of Australia in December , and then topped the New Zealand charts in February The song topped the Canadian charts in October It eventually sold over two million copies in the US alone. Billboard ranked it at No. The lyrics to Down Under depict an Australian man travelling the globe, who meets people who are interested in his home country.

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The story is based in part on singer Colin Hay's own experiences, including a prominent reference to a Vegemite sandwich a popular snack in Australia , which derived from an encounter, during Hay's travels abroad, with a baker who emigrated from Brunswick, Melbourne. Slang and drug terms are featured in the lyrics. They open with the singer travelling in a fried-out Kombi, on a hippie trail, head full of zombie.

In Australian slang "fried-out" means overheated, Kombi refers to the Volkswagen Type 2 combination van, and having "a head full of zombie" refers to the use of a type of marijuana. The song also contains the refrain, where beer does flow and men chunder.

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To "chunder" means to vomit. The band are moved along at one point by a man in a shirt and tie who places a 'Sold' sign in the ground. The exterior shots for the music video were filmed at the Cronulla sand dunes in Sydney. This, Hay has explained, was a warning to his fellow Australians that their country's identity was dying as a result of overdevelopment and Americanization. Hay has also stated that the same ominous sentiment lies behind the choral line, Can't you hear that thunder? You'd better run; you'd better take cover.

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The song is a perennial favourite on Australian radio and television , and topped the charts in the US and UK simultaneously in early Men at Work played this song in the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Sydney, alongside other Australian artists. Sections of the flute part of the recording of the song were found to be based on "Kookaburra", written in by Marion Sinclair. Sinclair died in [6] and the rights to the Kookaburra song were deemed to have been transferred to publisher Larrikin Music on 21 March In June , 28 years after the release of the recording, Larrikin Music sued Men At Work for copyright infringement, alleging that part of the flute riff of "Down Under" was copied from "Kookaburra".

On 4 February , Justice Jacobson ruled that Larrikin's copyright had been infringed because "Down Under" reproduced "a substantial part of Kookaburra ". When asked how much Larrikin would be seeking in damages, Larrikin's lawyer Adam Simpson replied: Until this high-profile case, "Kookaburra"'s standing as a traditional song combined with the lack of visible policing of the song's rights by its composer had led to the general public perception that the song was within the public domain.

The revelation of "Kookaburra"'s copyright status, and more so the pursuit of royalties from it, has generated a negative response among sections of the Australian public. Colin Hay has since suggested that the deaths of his father, Jim, in , and of Men at Work flautist Greg Ham in were directly linked to the stress of the court case. A new version of the song was produced by Colin Hay, coinciding with the thirtieth anniversary of the original's release.

In the new version, Hay intentionally changed the flute part that caused the copyright lawsuit.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. New wave [1] pop rock [2]. Colin Hay Ron Strykert. He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich And he said. I come from a land down under Where beer does flow and men chunder Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder You better run, you better take cover. Lying in a den in Bombay With a slack jaw and not much to say I said to the man: Are you trying to tempt me Because I come from the land of plenty?

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Do you come from a land down under oh yeah yeah Where women glow and men plunder Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder You better run, you better take cover. Living in a land down under Where women glow and man plunder Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.

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