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Die Flötenpartie im Song "Down Under" ist nur ganze zwei Sekunden zu hören. Das Musiklabel "Larrikin Music" hält die Rechte an der Melodie des Kinderliedes, weshalb dem Label nun die Lizenzgebühren zustehen, so das Urteil in Australien.

Der Song "Down Under" ist eine ironische Hommage an ihre Heimat Australien und gilt, neben Waltzing Matilda von Andrew Barton »Banjo« Paterson, als „heimliche australische Nationalhymne“. 1982 erreichte der Song Platz 1 der Single-Charts in Australien, England und den USA.

Songtext:

Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail head full of zombie
I met a strange lady she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast and she said

Do you come from a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear can't you hear the thunder
You better run you better take cover

Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six-foot-four and full of muscles
I said "Do you speak my language"
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" and he said

Do you come from a land down under
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 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 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 men plunder
Can't you hear can't you hear the thunder
You better run you better take cover

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