Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:35:17 -0700
Reply-To:     Malcolm Holser <mholser@ADOBE.COM>
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From:         Malcolm Holser <mholser@ADOBE.COM>
Subject:      (F) old songs with buses...
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I was browsing the 50-cent books for sale at the library when I saw a
songbook of "Men at Work", and started leafing through it.  I never
could understand the words to some of their songs, and was suprised
to find bus content...

The song "Down Under", which was their most-famous, and spread the fame
of "Vegemite" worldwide, starts with the line "Traveling in a fried-out
Kombi".  Cool.  Now I can read the words, but I still have no idea what
much of the song is about.  The part about beer sounds good.

I remember "Alice's Restaraunt Massacre" had a VW microbus as a feature.
Any other popular songs come to mind about VW transporters?


Malcolm H.
...travelling in a bright red, fried out, syncro Kombi (still unconverted
to the fixed-roof syncro westy I planned...


Here's the words to Down Under:

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?
  ...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-a 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, not much to say
I said to the man "Are you try'n to tempt me
  Because I come from the land of plenty?"

He said "Oh, 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."