@julzzzzzzzzzzz what rubbish you speak. Australia has a shameful past but I have never once heard anyone refer to an Aboriginal person as a N*****. As for legal to shoot people and hunt. Ridiculous. Why don't you crawl back into your hole and let us enjoy and listen to a song that touches the heart of many Australians, no matter their background or skin colour. I love Warumpi Band, they're one of Australia's finest. They're nowhere near as recognised as they deserve to be.
Love it, love it, love it. A beautiful song, sang by a beautiful Australian man with a great, great voice. I am proud to be part of this beautiful country, where I moved to from Holland 29.5 years ago :)
I bought a ''cassingle '' of this song in the 80s because thats all i could get at the time on Warumpi i saw them on Rage and straight away i liked them and still do ! unlike the irritating shit on the radio these days you have to listen to at work for 8 agonising hours
sorry i know this is nothing to do with these guys but can anyone tell me how to find anything about the band - nabalik....they are awesome..cheers...im looking hard as on you tube at the mo and cant find anything....ill keep looking.
american far worst then australia we cant walk into a sport shop and buy a gun and think i mite go to school and shoot up and kill many kids that didnt do anything this song was made in alicesprings and everyone gets along together so dont u talk bullshit
american far worst then australia we cant walk into a sort shop and buy a gun and think i mite go to school and shoot up and kill many kids that didnt do anything this song was made in alicesprings and everyone gets along together so dont u talk bullshit
lol in the 80's if u killed ANYONE wheither it b aboriginies or other, u'd rightly b charged with murder. and it some talk 4 someone who's earlier comments said "I love aboriginals... im yet to meet a good one which is sad, far to many of our black brothers are drug addicts and crims" keep ur american racisim to blacks in america mate
Another song seemingly harmonious song representing peace but in reality its another cryptically racist and divisive song. Like i said in a previous comment, as late as the 1980s it was i believe common place for groups of white men to go bush armed with rifles and other weapons and attack black australians without fear of the law.
Americans, don't look at our country and judge our people. We do not have anything like KKK here, our neighbourhoods aren't segregated to separate whites from blacks. We have communities of mixed cultures. It's unfortunate you saw white people disrespecting Aboriginals like that, but I assure you that is only a tiny minority. I was born and bred here, and I have never seen something like that ever. We have a lot of American's residing here, considering we're such a 'horrible bunch of people'.
Whites in australia are the most violent and racist group i have ever met. I travelled extensively around the world and i was shocked to hear that americans would travel to australia on "aboriginal hunting expeditions"... where white men would kill aboriginals just for fun. Even in the city it is still common for aboriginals to be shot by farmers
Bands like Warumpi's and No Fixed Address certainly set the stage for indigenous artists like Christine Anu and Yothu Yindi and showed that Aboriginal people aren't just people who sniff volatiles and booze on all day and are more than capable of making a contribution to a society that they are equally capable of rejecting
im an american man visiting australia... i have seen white people spit on aboriginals just for being black!!! i even saw a white women hit an aboriginal boy ... australian whites are terrible!! i even saw a white gang shouting abuse at an elderly aboriginal man...
Britain: Worlds Worst Mass-Murderer - those swine thugs have so much to answer for.
RIP Louis St John, a stolen Aboriginal boy, run over by british immigrants in Perth and then left to die in a Perth street. The racist ambulance curs, reckon he was drunk and left him to die from his injuries. Google his name.
Only british vermin can be so evil! Only the british!
@nomendegurre lol thats funny cos i noticed in sydney a racist white man, stab an aboriginal boy while shouting "nigger" and he didnt even get arrested. australia is so racist.. whites constantly abuse aboriginals and get away with it.
@sufeewi you dont understand.... there is so much racism agains aboriginals and blacks in australia. They even promote hatred of aboriginals in schools and even in the popular media... Remember it was about 20 years ago when it was still legal to shoot aboriginals on farms. My uncle was a farmer and said that in the 1990s groups of men would go nigger hunting and shoot aboriginals with rifles
be the indiginous carer of our home you know you can be and become the parent you know you can become to make the correct decisions for all of our children to be better at making our island sphere live longer for us
I love aboriginals... im yet to meet a good one which is sad, far to many of our black brothers are drug addicts and crims.... come on aboriginals have some pride clean up your act!!!! RESPECT TO AUSTRALIA
check out christine anes song my island home and be happy we own the song as ours and be happy our home owns us and we are entitled to be caretakers reclaim indigenous voice and vision
return us all to our island home as soon as we can
My Island Home came to me on a bus one night in June 1985. I had been living in the deserts of Central Australia for some six years. I had spent a week with our singer, George, at his home at Galiwinku in Arnhem Land. We camped on a remote part of the island with his family and had been living like kings on bush tucker and sea food caught by ourselves. I had to leave and make trips to Melbourne and Sydney. I suffered an exceptional longing to be back in a boat on a tropical sea. —Neil Murray
Palya wati. My name is Anthony. I have been doing volunteer stints in Warumpi since 2009 working in the computer room. At the moment I am reading 'Sing for me Countryman' and Listening to Warumpi band. Jason Butcher has been helping me with my Luritja. Its really cool to sit out on the porch in the evening when the dry winds blow :-).
@bravohotel10 Thanks for the song!, it truly is one of my favourites, it always makes me want to escape this bullshit city life and be out bush where i belong.
My Island Home came to me on a bus one night in June 1985. I had been living in the deserts of Central Australia for some six years. I had spent a week with our singer, George, at his home at Galiwinku in Arnhem Land. We camped on a remote part of the island with his family and had been living like kings on bush tucker and sea food caught by ourselves. I had to leave and make trips to Melbourne and Sydney. I suffered an exceptional longing to be back in a boat on a tropical sea. —Neil Murray
"My Island Home came to me on a bus one night in June 1985. I had been living in the deserts of Central Australia for some six years. I had spent a week with our singer, George, at his home at Galiwinku in Arnhem Land. We camped on a remote part of the island with his family and had been living like kings on bush tucker and sea food caught by ourselves.I had to leave and make trips to Melbourne and Sydney. I suffered an exceptional longing to be back in a boat on a tropical sea".
FUCK YOU ...ALL Australians are RACIST I am suprised you have not exterminated this singer as he is NOT WHITE! When I meet Australians I spit in there faces!
I could listen to this song and watch this clip all day long... it gives me a beautiful calming feeling, and it's so great to see the face of a young George Burarrwanga. (RIP)
Also the face of a young and brilliant Neil Murray... he acctually looks like a young Carus Thompson from Fremantle, i love it!
The intro sound of the ocean to this clip, and the two hands on the keys are a special touch to the whole experience for me. This work of art is timeless!!!
Top notch Aussie song. 'Big up' all the aboriginals out there, from a white fella its about time these people prosper in this land! One thing I admire about them, which this song so beautifully expresses is how connected they are to their land and home.
I've still got a tape somewhere which I recorded bits and pieces off the radio onto when I was about 13, there's an interview with the Warumpi Band just after they'd released Jail Anguru Parkanu, I thought that was a pretty cool song but this is magnificent. still holds up so well.
Saw Christine Anu on Spicks 'n Specks the other week. The host asked her a question. It went something like 'Do you still perform your song often'? At no stage during her answer did she say it WASN'T her song. She just said how she's sick of performing it. Disrespectful in two ways; 1) It's not her song to claim and 2) Saying that she's sick of singing the song that made he successful. She'd be nothing without that song and she's done nothing since. Warumpi Band's version will always be the best
I'm not from the Top End, I'm from Sydney, and I'm not living in the desert, I'm in New York but this makes me bawl. No worries though, I'm coming back for Christmas.
I have always adored this song. The original and the best. A wonderful special band and an exceptional lead singer full of passion and energy and joy. I was lucky enough to see them perform once, live in Brisbane and that man just electrified the whole place. Truly special...so I was utterely GUTTED to hear he had died! So glad I got to see him. A rare talent and a born performer worthy of an international stage. Great song to listen to when away and missing Aussie. Neil Murray great too.
I have got to say this guy is amazing, as for the ugly comment say what, all i see here is a beautiful soul, looks are nothing if you look into someones soul you will realise this. Its a pity there are people out there who can't actually listen and look and see the beauty in this wonderful singer
i have listened to this song on top of the Empire State Building in New York. 1993. As a white Australian from Melbourne it was 4 minutes i shall always be proud of.
@Makhecha - Ttwo points for you - 1. Mentioning one's own ethnicity in itself is not racist. 2. Australians are not "typically racist" - that's a very ordinary, untrue generalisation.
God bless them. They were such a good band to see. This whitefella misses the murri mates of his youth back in the Isa, and this song somehow seems appropriate.
Good work Neil for writing this masterpiece, also great work by George for singing it so great! Awesome Australia music, proud to call this beautiful land home!
brilliant band why is it that some australian people have no respect for our original people im origanally from england the aboriginal people and culture to me is amazing . the other day a bloke with australian shorts on asked me why i wore a shirt with an aboriginal flag on it is was quite racist toward it .. i told him this should be australias flag , not a union jack and a group of stars that you can see anywhere in the southern hemisphere ... lets make the change
As always, the original version is the best. Don't like Arnu's commercial "sell out" version at all.
This song depicts the pain of being dragged away from your traditional lands to be placed where you don't belong, very sad indeed, how it inspires pride in a country that has denied the existence of it's original caretakers is beyond me.
@Zorpho561 Arnu's version popularised the song, brought many to understand the origins of the song and WARUMPI. Don't knock her version, even though I still prefer original myself.
@Zorpho561 I hate the british pricks for killing natives of america and australia and destroying their culture and then forcing anyone that survived to live in our society im a white i hate my own kind and our society and our destructive nature of destroying the earth and each other,i want to live hunter gatherer with some native tribes instead of working a shit job so i can buy shit that i dont need i just hope the tribe can be more tolerant than whites and let me live with them
@Zorpho561 been watching abc for a while, and whenever parliment time is on, I fail to find a single aboriginal in a seat of power, not one to voice the opinions of these people at all.
I'm not a aboriginal but I'll always be proud of my country australia and the greatness you'll find here and nowhere else on earth.
@Zorpho561 um.... shut up with your political bullshit... he was never dragged away from anything you fukwit lefty and it's not what the song is about. just enjoy the music
zorpho u fukwit,obviously you are white,you ancestors come here on balls and chains fuckface,to compare valentines and rem to that song m8,you are fukd up your people got no culture and will never have any culture,the only culture you cunts got is spreading political bullshit and pox fukheads
@jyriesha Your command of the English language, your sence of morality, and your interpersonal skills all provide substantiation of your breeding. :) Pretty low I think. One step from being an ape from the looks of it. Thanks for supporting the arguments of all white racists in terms of their negative stereoptyping of blacks. Your doing all their work for them. Great job. Proud of yourself now are you???!!! :)
@Zorpho561 You are 100% right. It's a very beautiful song. Many people don't look beyond the chorus in songs like this. Anu's sweetened up version doesnt help either. A song rcorded in Australia repeating the lines My Island Home will always play hard to ex-pats whether they know what the song is really about or not. Its a bit like all those Valentines Day dedications of REM's The One I Love. A great song with a great chorus. Choruses serving their purpose. Drawing you in.
Fantastic, love this version,it is a great song about a great country,it tugs at your heart strings.Why don't we see bands like this on TV, they are great.
10 years I've lived in the US And every night ,I dream of AUS They say home is where you find it Will this place ever satisfy me? For I come from the QLD people We always lived, by the sea Now I'm out here in western Oregon With a wife, and a family In the even'in the B.S wind blows From the hills And across the plain I close my eyes and I’m standing In a boat On the sea again And I’m holding a reg in my hand And I feel I'm close now To where I should be My island home....
@aussiebluemax ...but they have to help themselves as well,yes they got screwed big time,but getting drunk or high or stealing and complaining how bad they got it ain't gonna achieve anything,education is the key,becoming a lawyer or doctor or something of importance is the only way that their voices will be heard and acted upon and not ignored.
@megayahabibi Yeah exactly. Like the homeless and disposessed. They should all just go to Uni and become lawyers and doctors. Absolutely amazing. Wow, why hasn't someone thought of this before. We should rush out into the streets and outback and tell everyone immediately.
What are you talking about Makhecha ? The song is about the lead singer George Burarrwanga's home town which is a small island off the North East coast of NT. Who said he was singing for anyone else anyway.
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I dont understand,, Racist Australians (White Australians) killed the aborigines..so why is this shit singing about his Island home?...does he not understand that racist Australians would beat the shit out of him, in a racist Australia? stupid fucker trying to sing for the white Australian racist population!
Happy Australia Day!!! :D
IncenseNPeppermint 4 days ago
@julzzzzzzzzzzz what rubbish you speak. Australia has a shameful past but I have never once heard anyone refer to an Aboriginal person as a N*****. As for legal to shoot people and hunt. Ridiculous. Why don't you crawl back into your hole and let us enjoy and listen to a song that touches the heart of many Australians, no matter their background or skin colour. I love Warumpi Band, they're one of Australia's finest. They're nowhere near as recognised as they deserve to be.
bmet102 1 week ago
love the song very much, really touch my heart
itawa456 2 weeks ago
beautiful song. Despite the politics, Australia is home to many people to whom it is the only home they know.
mellie48bris 3 weeks ago
Love it, love it, love it. A beautiful song, sang by a beautiful Australian man with a great, great voice. I am proud to be part of this beautiful country, where I moved to from Holland 29.5 years ago :)
edamse 3 weeks ago 2
What a shame such a wonderful song n video gets the sort of comments we read below? Yaama murri goomeroi to all my mob.
4x4Tinny 4 weeks ago
Best song ever!
Khrystene 1 month ago
did someone breed rednecks with the planet of the apes?
Psychedelic925 1 month ago
@Psychedelic925 go be racist somewhere else, you failure
pewpewpenguin 4 weeks ago
@pewpewpenguin lighten up it was a joke.
Psychedelic925 4 weeks ago
I bought a ''cassingle '' of this song in the 80s because thats all i could get at the time on Warumpi i saw them on Rage and straight away i liked them and still do ! unlike the irritating shit on the radio these days you have to listen to at work for 8 agonising hours
chklitttle 1 month ago
god I love these guys - truly great music
mozman16 1 month ago
sorry i know this is nothing to do with these guys but can anyone tell me how to find anything about the band - nabalik....they are awesome..cheers...im looking hard as on you tube at the mo and cant find anything....ill keep looking.
MrBillybeetroot 1 month ago
great song!!
MrBillybeetroot 1 month ago
being away from home for so long, brings a tear to my eye listening to this, im never leaving Australia again when i get back. good music
llandod77 1 month ago
bloody fantastic
lexy1729 2 months ago
Absolute tops. The best. Love it. From the heart. From the old Aussie.
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american far worst then australia we cant walk into a sport shop and buy a gun and think i mite go to school and shoot up and kill many kids that didnt do anything this song was made in alicesprings and everyone gets along together so dont u talk bullshit
BloodRazorz 2 months ago
american far worst then australia we cant walk into a sort shop and buy a gun and think i mite go to school and shoot up and kill many kids that didnt do anything this song was made in alicesprings and everyone gets along together so dont u talk bullshit
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lol in the 80's if u killed ANYONE wheither it b aboriginies or other, u'd rightly b charged with murder. and it some talk 4 someone who's earlier comments said "I love aboriginals... im yet to meet a good one which is sad, far to many of our black brothers are drug addicts and crims" keep ur american racisim to blacks in america mate
sliat1981 3 months ago
Another song seemingly harmonious song representing peace but in reality its another cryptically racist and divisive song. Like i said in a previous comment, as late as the 1980s it was i believe common place for groups of white men to go bush armed with rifles and other weapons and attack black australians without fear of the law.
julzzzzzzzzzzz 3 months ago
@julzzzzzzzzzzz coming from a nation that did slaves trading 4 over a century
sliat1981 3 months ago
@julzzzzzzzzzzz What you believe and what is true are two very different things.
Prod1Kh 3 months ago
Americans, don't look at our country and judge our people. We do not have anything like KKK here, our neighbourhoods aren't segregated to separate whites from blacks. We have communities of mixed cultures. It's unfortunate you saw white people disrespecting Aboriginals like that, but I assure you that is only a tiny minority. I was born and bred here, and I have never seen something like that ever. We have a lot of American's residing here, considering we're such a 'horrible bunch of people'.
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Whites in australia are the most violent and racist group i have ever met. I travelled extensively around the world and i was shocked to hear that americans would travel to australia on "aboriginal hunting expeditions"... where white men would kill aboriginals just for fun. Even in the city it is still common for aboriginals to be shot by farmers
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@julzzzzzzzzzzz . What rubbish!
Diagobohdi 3 months ago
@julzzzzzzzzzzz I'd be shocked to hear it, too. Then I'd look around for the hidden camera.
I've lived on the Anangu homelands and in two separate capital cities and what you are writing comes straight from the pages of bad fiction.
James Byrd Jr was American, not Australian, and his life ended in America, not Australia.
Prod1Kh 3 months ago
@julzzzzzzzzzzz you need to see someone mate please for all our sakes.
westerncrayfish 2 months ago
@julzzzzzzzzzzz the most misinformed belligerent comment i've read on youtbe, absolutely ridiculous, just not true
llandod77 1 month ago 4
Bands like Warumpi's and No Fixed Address certainly set the stage for indigenous artists like Christine Anu and Yothu Yindi and showed that Aboriginal people aren't just people who sniff volatiles and booze on all day and are more than capable of making a contribution to a society that they are equally capable of rejecting
clockoff1430 3 months ago
im an american man visiting australia... i have seen white people spit on aboriginals just for being black!!! i even saw a white women hit an aboriginal boy ... australian whites are terrible!! i even saw a white gang shouting abuse at an elderly aboriginal man...
julzzzzzzzzzzz 3 months ago
@julzzzzzzzzzzz America is perfect I guess?
RR1Joel 3 months ago
Britain: Worlds Worst Mass-Murderer - those swine thugs have so much to answer for.
RIP Louis St John, a stolen Aboriginal boy, run over by british immigrants in Perth and then left to die in a Perth street. The racist ambulance curs, reckon he was drunk and left him to die from his injuries. Google his name.
Only british vermin can be so evil! Only the british!
nomendegurre 3 months ago
@nomendegurre lol thats funny cos i noticed in sydney a racist white man, stab an aboriginal boy while shouting "nigger" and he didnt even get arrested. australia is so racist.. whites constantly abuse aboriginals and get away with it.
julzzzzzzzzzzz 3 months ago
@julzzzzzzzzzzz people being racist towards aboriginals isent allways just because they are black though
sufeewi 3 months ago
@sufeewi you dont understand.... there is so much racism agains aboriginals and blacks in australia. They even promote hatred of aboriginals in schools and even in the popular media... Remember it was about 20 years ago when it was still legal to shoot aboriginals on farms. My uncle was a farmer and said that in the 1990s groups of men would go nigger hunting and shoot aboriginals with rifles
julzzzzzzzzzzz 3 months ago
@julzzzzzzzzzzz I feel like no matter what i put on this page is going to prove anything of what i may know
sufeewi 3 months ago
I fkn cry when i hear this song, it's my favourite
maynjustadamdann 4 months ago
RIP mate
sliat1981 4 months ago
That Anu gin didnt have the fucking decency to say thank you....spoiled cunt.
farkennel1 4 months ago
so glad Australia has a cult song that represents the values and perspective of the first Australians
icaneatmyself 4 months ago 2
I love my home. Oz is one of the best places to live!!!!!!!!
Milamber7t8 4 months ago
i feel like saying sorry on behalf of the prime minister
ScoobysDisciple 5 months ago
absolutely love it
deathdog1882 5 months ago
be the indiginous carer of our home you know you can be and become the parent you know you can become to make the correct decisions for all of our children to be better at making our island sphere live longer for us
are we studpid ?
maisecret1 5 months ago
Proud to be Aborigine.
Wawuthupu 5 months ago
I love aboriginals... im yet to meet a good one which is sad, far to many of our black brothers are drug addicts and crims.... come on aboriginals have some pride clean up your act!!!! RESPECT TO AUSTRALIA
julzzzzzzzzzzz 5 months ago
@julzzzzzzzzzzz GO TA BROOME MAYE N MEET SUM AWESUM FOLK!!...666...
SATANWANJINA 4 months ago
check out christine anes song my island home and be happy we own the song as ours and be happy our home owns us and we are entitled to be caretakers reclaim indigenous voice and vision
return us all to our island home as soon as we can
island in the billabong
maisecret1 5 months ago
Great stuff guys, share the positive vibes
thestillsons 5 months ago
Beautiful voice...and I love this song.
wildchook9 5 months ago
Rest in Peace Brother...You will never be forgotten...Especially listening to your great song...The Original and Best....
mujikluva 5 months ago 2
Should be our national anthem. Would do something for reconciliation and lyrics and music are beautiful.
irie2012 5 months ago
Certainly my anthem having lived in Hong Kong for 5 years - brings tears to my eyes! Cant wait to get home......
azuregold1 5 months ago
@lolawatts777 Deep respect to your uncle George! A brilliant voice! a visionary!
Black fella, white fella, yellow fella, wtf difference does it make?
Tahlexia 5 months ago 13
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lolawatts777 5 months ago 3
this song makes me cry, it is beautiful, this man had a beautiful voice, what a shame he is not with us anymore, rip
siliconesister64 6 months ago
What do you think,Australia`s next national anthem????
ton691970 6 months ago
@ton691970 f***k yeah your right on the the money
blottz86 6 months ago
love to see a re release of this....in this era!!!!
lloouuify 6 months ago
The original and the best!
MrNayte84 6 months ago
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THIS MAN IS SELLING CRACK BUSY NOT PAYING CHILD SUPPORT.
HubsDrunk 7 months ago
best song....makes one homesick...
artiguista18 7 months ago 4
@artiguista18 homesick? so your not in australia??? traitor... stay overseas plz
julzzzzzzzzzzz 6 months ago
2:14 brillant shot, makes me proud to be Australian.
jonzot 7 months ago 5
The only version worth listening to.
ajbarron 7 months ago 2
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JaxonTuso 7 months ago
My Island Home came to me on a bus one night in June 1985. I had been living in the deserts of Central Australia for some six years. I had spent a week with our singer, George, at his home at Galiwinku in Arnhem Land. We camped on a remote part of the island with his family and had been living like kings on bush tucker and sea food caught by ourselves. I had to leave and make trips to Melbourne and Sydney. I suffered an exceptional longing to be back in a boat on a tropical sea. —Neil Murray
bravohotel10 8 months ago 24
@bravohotel10
Palya wati. My name is Anthony. I have been doing volunteer stints in Warumpi since 2009 working in the computer room. At the moment I am reading 'Sing for me Countryman' and Listening to Warumpi band. Jason Butcher has been helping me with my Luritja. Its really cool to sit out on the porch in the evening when the dry winds blow :-).
Kala Palya
Tjangala
arad5073 2 months ago
@bravohotel10 Thanks for the song!, it truly is one of my favourites, it always makes me want to escape this bullshit city life and be out bush where i belong.
Gosford4ever 1 month ago
@Gosford4ever Do it. Let yourself go
killsy 1 week ago
My Island Home came to me on a bus one night in June 1985. I had been living in the deserts of Central Australia for some six years. I had spent a week with our singer, George, at his home at Galiwinku in Arnhem Land. We camped on a remote part of the island with his family and had been living like kings on bush tucker and sea food caught by ourselves. I had to leave and make trips to Melbourne and Sydney. I suffered an exceptional longing to be back in a boat on a tropical sea. —Neil Murray
bravohotel10 8 months ago
@bravohotel10 what are you up to these days....time to release this with a 2011 upgrade...its so special ))))
lloouuify 6 months ago
"My Island Home came to me on a bus one night in June 1985. I had been living in the deserts of Central Australia for some six years. I had spent a week with our singer, George, at his home at Galiwinku in Arnhem Land. We camped on a remote part of the island with his family and had been living like kings on bush tucker and sea food caught by ourselves.I had to leave and make trips to Melbourne and Sydney. I suffered an exceptional longing to be back in a boat on a tropical sea".
—Neil Murray
bravohotel10 8 months ago 2
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FUCK YOU ...ALL Australians are RACIST I am suprised you have not exterminated this singer as he is NOT WHITE! When I meet Australians I spit in there faces!
Makhecha 8 months ago
Simply "real" ... genuine ... thanks
Aquamania 8 months ago
I am from brasil, living in australia, im learning to play this aussie song, it is so good! and always calm me down! ^^
caiobm97 8 months ago 2
Wicked! Totally wicked!!!
I could listen to this song and watch this clip all day long... it gives me a beautiful calming feeling, and it's so great to see the face of a young George Burarrwanga. (RIP)
Also the face of a young and brilliant Neil Murray... he acctually looks like a young Carus Thompson from Fremantle, i love it!
The intro sound of the ocean to this clip, and the two hands on the keys are a special touch to the whole experience for me. This work of art is timeless!!!
GROUP1GAV 8 months ago
This is the deadliest song of all time - true unnah brother
wanarra1 9 months ago 4
What a fantastic band. Such a beautiful rendition of this song. I like Christine Anu's version but this band kills Anu's by miles.
sapphire60s 9 months ago
Top notch Aussie song. 'Big up' all the aboriginals out there, from a white fella its about time these people prosper in this land! One thing I admire about them, which this song so beautifully expresses is how connected they are to their land and home.
fergusthewestie 9 months ago
I've still got a tape somewhere which I recorded bits and pieces off the radio onto when I was about 13, there's an interview with the Warumpi Band just after they'd released Jail Anguru Parkanu, I thought that was a pretty cool song but this is magnificent. still holds up so well.
BigJulieWasDead 9 months ago
everytime I hear this my heart goes to my throat and I fight back tears - Tyvm nzoz for posting this
MowMowMowDiittyMow 10 months ago 2
Saw Christine Anu on Spicks 'n Specks the other week. The host asked her a question. It went something like 'Do you still perform your song often'? At no stage during her answer did she say it WASN'T her song. She just said how she's sick of performing it. Disrespectful in two ways; 1) It's not her song to claim and 2) Saying that she's sick of singing the song that made he successful. She'd be nothing without that song and she's done nothing since. Warumpi Band's version will always be the best
raging78 10 months ago 6
Yea luv dis song peace out to all ma Aboriginal Brother and sister from childers QLD Murrie Style..
illSlapUrBitch 11 months ago
love this too
49sharyn 11 months ago
ive always felt this is the single most beauriful piece of music my country has ever produced.
darknightcomingon 11 months ago 4
I loved the two hands on the keyboard. I've always loved this song too
mssunset59 11 months ago 2
you paved a path it needs to be finished brother...**** rip****
wallybarwick1 1 year ago
I am a Proud Indigenous Australian, and we grew up listn to this mob. bloody job well done.......
and this is what makes our country, our people representing, our culture....
cyndelle1000 1 year ago 29
@cyndelle1000 so are you a 100% full blood i doubt it
aussiebluemax 1 year ago
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TO DEADLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
broncseagles 1 year ago
TO DEADLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
broncseagles 1 year ago
This is one of the best songs ive ever heard.
Aussiechicksrock 1 year ago
I'm not from the Top End, I'm from Sydney, and I'm not living in the desert, I'm in New York but this makes me bawl. No worries though, I'm coming back for Christmas.
rotcafarg 1 year ago
hey, where can i buy this song? greets from berlin
simon100fhain 1 year ago
makes me home sick and want to get back to the territory
petermcc49 1 year ago
Just love this song.
Kingmick58 1 year ago
this group has talent and the song is beautiful....thank you very much....
alangeo4 1 year ago
GR8 VERSION!!
77CITYPUNK 1 year ago
@77CITYPUNK :-) the original version :-)
kimbodious 1 year ago
what a goreous man, sutch a touching song,
49sharyn 1 year ago
I have always adored this song. The original and the best. A wonderful special band and an exceptional lead singer full of passion and energy and joy. I was lucky enough to see them perform once, live in Brisbane and that man just electrified the whole place. Truly special...so I was utterely GUTTED to hear he had died! So glad I got to see him. A rare talent and a born performer worthy of an international stage. Great song to listen to when away and missing Aussie. Neil Murray great too.
missgalindo1 1 year ago 2
George was nothing without Neil Murray, and Neil was nothing without George.
s4099274 1 year ago
tortured soul that George was...he could never get the balance beteen life and the white man's world. rest now brother
mzmburton83 1 year ago
I have got to say this guy is amazing, as for the ugly comment say what, all i see here is a beautiful soul, looks are nothing if you look into someones soul you will realise this. Its a pity there are people out there who can't actually listen and look and see the beauty in this wonderful singer
julieaims1 1 year ago
i have listened to this song on top of the Empire State Building in New York. 1993. As a white Australian from Melbourne it was 4 minutes i shall always be proud of.
This Song is Australia.
demonsbutterfly 1 year ago 65
@demonsbutterfly if they ever decided to change our anthem this should be looked at no matter where we come from we all love australia
dmh10430 8 months ago
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@demonsbutterfly go back to europe you idiot
OszolomyPajace 6 months ago
@demonsbutterfly Note you mention you are a WHITE Australian ! LOL TYPICAL RACIST AUSTRALIAN!
Makhecha 4 months ago
@Makhecha - Ttwo points for you - 1. Mentioning one's own ethnicity in itself is not racist. 2. Australians are not "typically racist" - that's a very ordinary, untrue generalisation.
noteatpig2getha 4 months ago
@Makhecha LOL and your a wanker! :)
Heidelager 4 months ago
@Heidelager LOL not as much a wnaker as you WHITE Australian! RACISTS !
Makhecha 3 months ago
What a fantastic song, reminds me of my Island home. Just Love it
Goorie2 1 year ago
love the imagery in this.. thanks
Ozqs 1 year ago
Great Song, Great artist
gringaigirl 1 year ago
BEAUTIFUL SONG From a beautiful man, A real deep and inspirational song.
gringaigirl 1 year ago
BEAUTIFUL SONG From a beautiful man, A real deep and inspirational song.
gringaigirl 1 year ago
God bless them. They were such a good band to see. This whitefella misses the murri mates of his youth back in the Isa, and this song somehow seems appropriate.
buddyzzyp 1 year ago
i just want to cry!
gordontheyob 1 year ago
He wasn't ahead of his time. he came just in time to lay the foundation future Aboriginal Artists.
Luv Ya George!
SexyliciousBab3 1 year ago
He wasn't before his time. He was just in time to lay the foundation for Aboriginal Artist to come :D
Miss you george!
SexyliciousBab3 1 year ago
3:51 sums it up - black fella, white fella, doesn't matter, long as you're a true fella
s4099274 1 year ago
Good work Neil for writing this masterpiece, also great work by George for singing it so great! Awesome Australia music, proud to call this beautiful land home!
s4099274 1 year ago
mad song this cunt
DEONG25 1 year ago
RIP to this beautiful singer...
mspakana 1 year ago
Great song!
lgomez222 1 year ago
cool, read the name of the band in a book. did not think, they really existed.
Bambulator 1 year ago
absolute classic. beautiful song mate
cashy71 1 year ago
great song great band great musician
scrabbleman 1 year ago
im from australia and i think that the aboriginals are the true australians and we should stop the racism great song i feel proud when i hear it
rockwallaby23 1 year ago 4
you just gotta close your eyes and this song takes you to another place...just amazing :)
BuddieBoi18 1 year ago
rip brother boys!!!
bungeification 1 year ago
My Island home is in Wreck Bay on the Beach xo
donyadiver 1 year ago
RIP geaorge
onethreehundred 1 year ago
brilliant band why is it that some australian people have no respect for our original people im origanally from england the aboriginal people and culture to me is amazing . the other day a bloke with australian shorts on asked me why i wore a shirt with an aboriginal flag on it is was quite racist toward it .. i told him this should be australias flag , not a union jack and a group of stars that you can see anywhere in the southern hemisphere ... lets make the change
mahoganyduvet33 1 year ago
As always, the original version is the best. Don't like Arnu's commercial "sell out" version at all.
This song depicts the pain of being dragged away from your traditional lands to be placed where you don't belong, very sad indeed, how it inspires pride in a country that has denied the existence of it's original caretakers is beyond me.
Zorpho561 1 year ago 28
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alexanderwhite1986 11 months ago
@Zorpho561 Arnu's version popularised the song, brought many to understand the origins of the song and WARUMPI. Don't knock her version, even though I still prefer original myself.
357HFC 9 months ago 3
@Zorpho561 I hate the british pricks for killing natives of america and australia and destroying their culture and then forcing anyone that survived to live in our society im a white i hate my own kind and our society and our destructive nature of destroying the earth and each other,i want to live hunter gatherer with some native tribes instead of working a shit job so i can buy shit that i dont need i just hope the tribe can be more tolerant than whites and let me live with them
UTFRG 8 months ago
@UTFRG Off you go then mate go live in the stone ages then you self-hating nobody
koorja1 8 months ago
@Zorpho561 been watching abc for a while, and whenever parliment time is on, I fail to find a single aboriginal in a seat of power, not one to voice the opinions of these people at all.
I'm not a aboriginal but I'll always be proud of my country australia and the greatness you'll find here and nowhere else on earth.
KMcombine 8 months ago
@KMcombine coz parliament is'nt gonna put a aboriginal person into a seat of power.too many rednex in society.we're educated these days.
yurimika1 7 months ago
@Zorpho561 um.... shut up with your political bullshit... he was never dragged away from anything you fukwit lefty and it's not what the song is about. just enjoy the music
julzzzzzzzzzzz 6 months ago
zorpho u fukwit,obviously you are white,you ancestors come here on balls and chains fuckface,to compare valentines and rem to that song m8,you are fukd up your people got no culture and will never have any culture,the only culture you cunts got is spreading political bullshit and pox fukheads
jyriesha 6 months ago
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@jyriesha i dont know what your talking about... but this cunt george was never taken away from anything.. just enjoy the song you black cunt
julzzzzzzzzzzz 6 months ago
@jyriesha Your command of the English language, your sence of morality, and your interpersonal skills all provide substantiation of your breeding. :) Pretty low I think. One step from being an ape from the looks of it. Thanks for supporting the arguments of all white racists in terms of their negative stereoptyping of blacks. Your doing all their work for them. Great job. Proud of yourself now are you???!!! :)
Heidelager 4 months ago
@Zorpho561 You are 100% right. It's a very beautiful song. Many people don't look beyond the chorus in songs like this. Anu's sweetened up version doesnt help either. A song rcorded in Australia repeating the lines My Island Home will always play hard to ex-pats whether they know what the song is really about or not. Its a bit like all those Valentines Day dedications of REM's The One I Love. A great song with a great chorus. Choruses serving their purpose. Drawing you in.
therealmaccattack 6 months ago
This song along with Great Southern Land is one of the best songs that really convey what it is to be an Australian.
1962SjS 1 year ago
ftw
No1101 1 year ago
This is my favorite song by these guys.
Linguiphile 1 year ago
Fantastic, love this version,it is a great song about a great country,it tugs at your heart strings.Why don't we see bands like this on TV, they are great.
marthaBot 1 year ago
this1oldsoul 1 year ago 3
Beautiful... ♥ Warumpi Band.
R0dMaD0k 1 year ago
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this1oldsoul 1 year ago
madness video
boogamadness09 1 year ago
This is a great Australian song, it makes me feel proud to be Australian.
TG980 1 year ago
this band is very underrated & thank you for sharing this awesome song clip with us
bullnbarley 1 year ago
beautiful song
hopop313 1 year ago
my most favorite and heartwarming EVER !!!!!!!!
Earthseed57 1 year ago 2
the most amazing song . RIP George
dodgephoenix67 1 year ago
This should be the Australian anthem. I guess it is for the Island people. Beautiful song. Thanks for pasting this.
futurelegendfilms 1 year ago
Minjeribah, north stradbroke island. Shout out to all my quandamooka people.
ThomasGunnz 1 year ago
this is fucking amazing man just found these guys much respect peace
jokersmoker00oo 1 year ago
I just downloaded this mp3 at mp3iifffy. Check that site out - its sick. Google mp3iifffy
MsAmaiaAmal 1 year ago
its sad that we let and help these ungrateful fckers into our country but we can't help our own people like the poor aborignals fcking shameful.
aussiebluemax 1 year ago
@aussiebluemax ...but they have to help themselves as well,yes they got screwed big time,but getting drunk or high or stealing and complaining how bad they got it ain't gonna achieve anything,education is the key,becoming a lawyer or doctor or something of importance is the only way that their voices will be heard and acted upon and not ignored.
megayahabibi 1 year ago
@megayahabibi Yeah exactly. Like the homeless and disposessed. They should all just go to Uni and become lawyers and doctors. Absolutely amazing. Wow, why hasn't someone thought of this before. We should rush out into the streets and outback and tell everyone immediately.
tengusensei 1 year ago
"My island home is awaiting for me..."...there's so much feeling in this song...R.I.P George..
artiguista18 1 year ago
maaan, nothing beats the original... str8 from the heart....
sasamuraki 1 year ago
a song coming from the heart is to be shared. It cannot be otherwise.Peace and love, Elia
Earthseed57 1 year ago
What are you talking about Makhecha ? The song is about the lead singer George Burarrwanga's home town which is a small island off the North East coast of NT. Who said he was singing for anyone else anyway.
mmacl 1 year ago
Rest in Peace George Burarrwanga ! xxx
I like this version way better.
MrGluey666 1 year ago 2
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I dont understand,, Racist Australians (White Australians) killed the aborigines..so why is this shit singing about his Island home?...does he not understand that racist Australians would beat the shit out of him, in a racist Australia? stupid fucker trying to sing for the white Australian racist population!
Makhecha 1 year ago
@Makhecha: maybe he doesn't want to hold himself to the same small-minded standards as racists; and he wants to pursue his own life freely?
RHutton2710 1 year ago
@Makhecha he is singing for his mob nd he is not a stupid fucker.....
TJaPuKaIBrEEdZ 1 year ago
neil murray wrote this song
sonvolt77 1 year ago