Paul Kelly - From Little Things Big Things Grow

[mattyk722]

and his name was Whitlam!

[speedy109]

Does anyone else think that he sounds like australian bob dylan?

[RichT1967]

@speedy109 - The tune/melody/structure sounds similar to "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" by Bob Dylan

[knutz7]

@RichT1967 ........very much so...Bobs is a very sad song

[JamesOnscotch]

Does it bother anyone else that such a wonderful and powerful song is now used to sell insurance?

[lillyandruben]

why is he shaking his left hand 

[BrissoParrothead]

@lillyandruben photo is reversed - check the stripes on Whitlams tie

[num1horseluva]

awesome!!!!!

[TheMrlukeeduke]

how may freaking mics do you need 

[hazzadaboom203]

from little thing big things grow ;) ;) ;)

[winnienobody]

Performed this at assembly today. (:

[ashleingh]

@axiominterzmiles91 shut up you neoconservative piece of nazi shit!

[Possommi]

thx for sharing

[sandsifter149]

NEVER trust any politician..THEY ARE ALL LIARS.....!!!

[TheHUMANIDEE]

BEAUTIFUL!

[evilbron666]

I had to watch a McFondles commercial to see this clip..... can anyone do something about that??? :(

[KeepYaHeadUpVids]

@evilbron666 me too mate, painful stuff... unfortunatley only youtube can get rid of the ad's

[3wisepens]

@evilbron666 Are You doing it for a project?, i am.

[xavierulzok]

@evilbron666 sucks, I know, but remember that advertising keeps the internet free :)

[JacksonStGeorge]

@evilbron666 asblock plus buddy. Gets rid of nearly all of those pre clip ads.

[12333thisismeeee]

Love this song and his voice. His songs remind me of my childhood, as my parents used to always play his songs when we were young, along with Cat Steven's songs.

[ashleingh]

The three idiots who don't like this are probably Pauline Hanson, a Member of the KKK and Tony Abbott.

[homieomego]

this song makes me proud to feel australian

[66feebee]

great lyrics!!

[abortzee]

@random007nadir

please don't take this the wrong way, i'm not trying to be insensitive but can you tell me why it's so important for aboriginal people to be informed about the possibility of deceased aboriginal people been shown?

once again i'm not being a smart arse i actually want to know if it's a cultural belief thing or whatever. please message me and let me know.

[zacsgood]

@abortzee Australian aboriginal people do not like to talk of passed people, it's a cultural thing about letting the dead rest

[franzfaramir]

Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

[skjgaming]

dude this helped me with homework thanks!

[vron124]

so inspirational

[MrSmokingKronic]

my dope plants favourtie song

[KeepYaHeadUpVids]

@MrSmokingKronic mine too my friend ;)

[lillyandruben]

@MrSmokingKronic made me laugh dude

[MrSmokingKronic]

@lillyandruben lol xD

[peoplehelp]

This moves me every time I hear it. These were big players in big issues in significant times in our countries history. What powerful imagery of Whitlam pouring sand into Vincents hand.

[kathygeoff1]

I am very sorry for intruding into this way of life , I am not used to it, I do not even have a mobile phone.

If I have affended anyone ,please forgive me,I did not even know that people could come back with a comment to me.

Sorry to all.

[ats11279]

Ken Carmody?



[kathygeoff1]

don't any of you know what this is all about, are people that niaeve , are you brought up to be an australian or not

[nickyboy22071989]

@kathygeoff1 And you can't spell Naive lol

[bigGaza1]

Paul Kelly sure can tell a story.

I have a story 2 tell also.

I love u Babe.

:)

[9761scott]

@shaunimiya , how about you go fuck yourself with a house brick, fuckwit.

This comes from a white to a racist turd - YOU !

[rollonsummer]

Paul Kelly has taught me more about the history of Australia than any school teacher ever has. :)

[ozdonz]

2 people have little things growing out of their arses...

[random007nadir]

please put a warning that this contains images of aboriginals that may be deceased!!!

[thisoneless]

well... gather something....

[1bonah]

im sorry aboriginals that the white man took over

[neile2001]

Dylan writes about a homicidal boxer... Paul Keely writes this.... decide for yourself...

[1312512345]

FROM LITTLE THINGS BIG THINGS GROW.

[KeepYaHeadUpVids]

@1312512345 how many times do you have to comment?

[nickyboy22071989]

@KeepYaHeadUpVids

1312512345 times

[TheAsh129]

@KeepYaHeadUpVids hey just so ya know a school in townsville australia have chosen ur video talk about who are the untold heros so yea good job the school is called Ryan Catholic College :) i liked

[UndoneB4Broken]

@1312512345 beer is good shit ini!

[1312512345]

I AM SORRY ABORIGINALS THAT WHITE TOOK OVER.

[1312512345]

FROM LITTLE THINGS, BIG THINGS GROW!!!!!!

VESTEY WAS FAT!!!! HA HA HA HA HA

[gowrishan]

this man is Australia's best musician... period.

[jasonyoungdenmark]

@gowrishan

he is one of Australia's greatest singer songwriters, I do agree.

[Keruaran]

Paul Kelly. RESPECT.

[Dibby59]

@KeepYaHeadUpVids Thanks for taking the effort of putting up the lyrics, appreciate it.

[KeepYaHeadUpVids]

@Dibby59 No worries mate :)

[MrW00fers]

i meet paul kelly in real life

[TheOldEchoes]

I'm lining up all these matchbox/hotwheels cars along the table - boys are in bed - what does that say - frign' commercial suck or....... no, I'm sober and lining up toys so when they come out after their sleep....... people do things, in most times, for love. Not an affair nor a matter of state. Faith does grow.

[relicz1]

simple use this youtube2mp3

[bozoakacarl]

Is this not The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll with different lyrics?

[celebkiriedhel]

@bozoakacarl It has a similiar riff at the beginning, but the melody and chords diverges greatly further in. So no. It's not.

[celebkiriedhel]

@bozoakacarl It has a similiar riff at the beginning, but the melody and chords diverges greatly further in. So no. It's not.

[coshea90]

@bozoakacarl i think so, changed a little

[PenneArbonara]

in the lyrics it says 'seven quid' but its not

[KeepYaHeadUpVids]

@PenneArbonara thanks for that

[dm7ify]

@KeepYaHeadUpVids

it used to be seven

must be inflation ;)

[Hurzty]

what idiot had the heart to dislike this song?

[kai4wd]

@Hurzty

sadly we live in a country full of rednecks, but you and i know, from little things big things grow.

[AustralianPyro]

@kai4wd no matter who we are, what country we hail from, or what walk of life we have travelled, there is one common, uniting feature about all of us... ...our incessant ability to blame others for the shit in this world. for fucks sake, the mythical "rednecks" are nothing but a scapegoat "REDNECKS", NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY; HAVE. NO. SAY IN. ANYTHING. but what Australia IS full of, is middle class white champaign liberals who aren't willing to pull their own weight in solving problems.

[yandiggles]

@Hurzty

that was probably  johnny howard.

[samesdifd]

@yandiggles It was Gough Whitlam

[laq2]

@yandiggles highly doubt that

[slatibaadfast]

addendum:

The number of stockmen didn't matter. 1, 2 or 25. you were responsible for the entire clan. which could (and often did) run into around 60 people.

[TheGudgeonGuy]

@slatibaadfast When you say you were responsible for housing feeding medical education do you mean you had to give them a shed and some flour and tea?

[slatibaadfast]

@TheGudgeonGuy . This may be a little hard for you but I suggest that you check the histories of stations in the outback. you imply that those station managers did bugger all, while living in mansions. no doubt you will accuse me of 'stretching the truth' when I say that even as late as the early 1960's a large number of those 'mansions' were nothing more than tin sheds. ...

[slatibaadfast]

..... a few I had been to in the Northern territory still had dirt floors, even though we are talking about spreads of more than half a million acres.

[slatibaadfast]

Pt 4:... but the land is still classified as a mission and the elders requested the houses but failed to mention everyone was moving on. There has been some good things to come out of Whitlam pouring a hand full of dirt into vincents hand, (I was there that day) and Fraser signing off on it. BUT there has been a lot of things worse than what we had before. All I am saying is check your history, but be careful as a lot of it is being rewritten as each day passes.

[slatibaadfast]

Pt 3: .. (but still had to carry the rest) so it was easier for the landholders to sack (fire) the indigenous peoples and hire 'whites' as a white fella had to care for himself (and his family). I have seen the government sign off on millions of dollars for Aboriginal townships were the money, once delivered has disappeared, I have seen the government spend hundreds of thousands of dollars building homes for the peoples of aboriginal missions even though the people have moved on....

[slatibaadfast]

Pt 2: but you have to remember that the costs of caring for the extended families was also covered by the stationmaster. If those types of laws were still in place (updated to todays stds) then there is a very good chance that the alcohol, crime and family abuse would not be at the levels they are today. what happened was, when Fraser (not whitlam) signed off on the land rights treaty then the stationmasters were made to pay the full adult wage.

[slatibaadfast]

Pt 1: Nice song and nice sentiment , but it's a shame that the truth didn't get told at the same time. that being that if you owned or ran a station (ranch) in those days and had 15 ringers (stockmen) working for you, you were also responsible for every indigenous person, Man woman and child. feeding, housing, medical, clothing and education. THAT was the law. plus you still had to pay a wage to the ringer. admittedly the wage was around half of the adult weekly wage...

[TheCJStriker1]

Profund, it really comes from bottom of the heart.

[TheCJStriker1]

Profund, it really comes from bottom of the heart

[estebee]

Good on ya paul kelly, keep making aussies proud :D

[lemire1984]

Really good song, this is the music i wanna play. Its just so hard to find a band that is interested in the same style.

[lostpebble]

A message of hope and idealism ...

But the reality is some what different.

The struggle is continuing !!

Can you handle the truth about our indigenous brother and sister !?

Of course !! some said. Oh yeah ... Really !?

[TheBlueberry163]

@lostpebble True, but... I really think eventually 'we' wil have a mind shift and REALLY see the Aborginal people have an enormous role to play in Australia's future. It isn't just enough to 'fix' stuff, white people (I am white btw) have been trying to fix the 'Aboriginal problems' for over 200 years and failed miserably...it's about time we realised the locals were doing just dandy without the white men meddling for 40,000 years +. Fix the whitefella problem instead!

[lostpebble]

@TheBlueberry163 Really !? Do you really think this is a black fella, white fella issue !? Or could this be an issue of just who we are ? Human, the nature of humanity. Just look at all the conflicts around the world over religion, distribution of resources ... If there were a twist in nature, there could well be a black Lord Westey and a white Vincent Lingiari !! But this was no doubt A MOMENT of triamphant of "Good" over "Bad/Evil" in the human evolution process.

[TheBlueberry163]

@lostpebble I think you may have misinterpreted what I was trying to get across. I do not see this as a blackfella whitefella issue. I see this story as just one example of an individual standing his ground in his own way and saying a big "f u" to the entire system. The system was and continues to be wrong and in need of what you called human evolutionary process. On that we agree for sure.

[TheBlueberry163]

@lostpebble Hmm, well on a personal note, so as to put it in context, my youngest daughter has dark skin, I have that typical "wog" skin and got shit as a kid for that . Her dad is black and is a narcisstic meglamaniacs who talks shit and has kids to lots of women. I get asked all the time if my littlie is adopted as she is darker than me and my elder daughters. I do not give a rats ass what people think or say, I KNOW it isn't a blackfella whitefella issue. It will change though. Kids are smart

[lostpebble]

@TheBlueberry163 "narcisstic megalomaniac" LOL Aren't we all like that some time !? I guess it's a matter of degree ... Yes, Kids are more clever, we can only hope !! That is, only if we have not stuffed up the joint (the earth) so much ... that they still have a chance.

[Lanabutterfly1256]

how do you play the guiter so well. i can here it inh the backround

but the end is abit wired and it has no guiter

i play the guiter and i tri it is really hard to do what u are doing

bye

[Lanabutterfly1256]

love the music awsome

[Boonari]

Please Aboriginal people, don't give up any land to mining! They slowly making one big hole from our pressures country for greatness of China!

[reds2001]

it there land it time aust give back to them,

[RDKF13]

Only Paul Kelly could write something this good, and big Kev Carmody aswell!

[tyrannaskyrulz]

Nice! Lyrics in the description! LOVE MUSIC VIDS WITH DAT!!!! ~(^^) <---- Smiling penguin

[KeepYaHeadUpVids]

@tyrannaskyrulz Glad you enjoyed the video :)

[Maddy]

Paul Kelldoggy is the greatest.

[kensington25]

A beautiful song about an important part of Australian history.

[AUSSIExRULES]

They should make a movie about this story. The story and great cinematography would make it blockbuster.

[MrABWO]

quality

[mrsnaoum]

i would vote this song as our national anthem.

[findquietdotca]

@mrsnaoum absofuckinglutely. after this week's election debarcle I don't feel very inspired by my fellow Australians; but this song makes me hope for better things.

[jabob98]

Does any one know the harp tabs to this song? Cheers.

[sainathsamant]

i want to dl this song , where I will get this song

[KeepYaHeadUpVids]

@sainathsamant you could download the song from limewire, or you could buy the track on itunes, or if its easier i can attach it to an email and send it to you

[valleek]

@sainathsamant pirate bay

[beaumarisdavid]

@sainathsamant DVDVideoSoft Free Studio is a program that will let u change you tube to mp3

[WeezysCommunity]

FROM LIL THINGS, BIG THINGS GROW!

[MrSlroyboy]

i like this song it has a powerful message which i respect its a good song

[Amordeeve]

I hte this song and i hv to listen to it and i hv to analize it aghhhhh

[colemanjodie]

@Amordeeve whatever

[TheNameisSpeed]

It was magical when my whole grade sung the chorus altogether. They knew this from that superannuation ad ... but that ad is so opposite to the message behind the story :)

[thebluepenguin98]

such a beautiful story... :)

[OptimistismIsHard]

all you have to do is remember this song and you'll easily pass the School Certificate.

[AprilLouiseJones]

i'm doing an essay on this story... it's interesting learning about this event...

[dicews]

thats a story i never knew, you have to love the pride of the people of this country

sending peace and respect from this viewer

[Motoguzzi750]

Kitki IIRC the banjo picker on the Comedy album was credited as Ian Simpson. Not sure of any other recording...

[MrTrinz]

Void smells

[Motoguzzi750]

Deaf the other writer was Kev Carmody - damn fine sonwriter too.

One the finest songs ever - and the "TINNY" guitar might be Ian Simpson on the banjo...

[popabik]

sonwriter ???????/

[Motoguzzi750]

Yeah he always writes with the permission of his son. :-)

[ebro111]

Top song.

Brings a tear to my eye every time.

Australia needs to do a lot more than stand a Mr Garrison looking mofo up to say sorry.

Respect to our original inhabitants - they didn't own the land, they belonged to it.

If the rest of the world/people had this attitude we might be OK.

Peace and respect

[tudori1]

true ebro.....no one owns the land! we do belong to her..n look after her! :)

[DeafFret]

Paul Kelly didn't write it alone. Who was the other writer of the song?

[KeepYaHeadUpVids]

@DeafFret Kev Carmody mate

[DeafFret]

@KeepYaHeadUpVids ty!

[tudori1]

kev carmody

[TomSince1996]

@DeafFret Kev Carmody i think

[xxxx30pack]

cheers for that..

[Floyd13778]

Interesting compilation of pictures, very well done!

[KeepYaHeadUpVids]

@Floyd13778 Thanks mate =)

[castlecove2008]

great song

[maddyrox62]

this is my mum inguesous groups team song ai am abariganal

[PeteCash405]

well, you're really cool now,

ass

[KKurt8892]

hooking up makes a girl a slut? what the eff

[scarecrow7236]

What a nice way to explain evolution.

[KKurt8892]

an all time classic!

Thanks for upload, lost my Paul Kelly CD

[bimquantejubila]

Such a beautiful song, the combination of the simple, affecting lyrics and whirling, tinny guitar --what sentiment ... Thank you.

[Hightimez062002]

Beautiful song!!!!! 10/10

[Boudiicca]

I keep listening to this song because I got a job the other day as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teacher aide and am so looking forward to helping create an appreciation and better understanding of Aboriginal peoples, cultures, customs and beliefs within my community...a small step towards reconciliation - from little things, big things grow :)

[KeepYaHeadUpVids]

Good on you mate, i wish you all the best!

[Boudiicca]

Thanks heaps :)

[1unsung]

@Boudiicca You are the future. Bless you for putting things right. Would that the World had more people like you. Love will win out in the end, because of people like you. Love across the miles and thank you. You ngive me hope and the will to fight on against inequality.

[econcern1]

Lets keep the faith, and keep it growing!

[Persicanada]

beautiful song. beautiful story. Indigenous Australia needs another Lingiari, Australia needs is another Whitlam,

[KeepYaHeadUpVids]

I couldnt agree more =)

[ticket009]

@Persicanada agreed :)