ULURU (Ayers Rock) Australia ~ "Raining On The Rock"

[MrJuno6]

Daft song, its an inanimate object.

[QUINTUSMAXIMUS]

@MrJuno6 For you, it's simply an inanimate object. For some Australian it has a certain symbolism. Every country has something like that.  Koreans love Bekdu mountain, Americans like Mount Rushmore.

[kingcbf]

i love this song and i am singing this for my school concert

[catebonnie]

uLURU IS NOT THE ABORIGENAL NAME, FAGGOTS.

[MrVilniusNastavnik]

@catebonnie actually it is lol its the name the Pitjantjatjara people call the rock lol

[deidaragirl4]

I've been to Uluru! :D It was awesome :3 And I remember this song being sung by my schools choir :)

[azzamax21]

I had to sing this for choir in 2006 I think? This song brings back a whole load of percious and pure memories. Thankyou mrtibbs6912, greatly appreciated. :')

[27BLH]

great song and true blue

[27BLH]

great song

[pootnikalexander]

Blessed Mother Earth is The Alter we all walk upon. Peace

[TubbleBubbleMinaDog]

All this talk about who owns it is total bullshit. It was there 1 million years before anyone and it will be there 1 million years after we are all gone. Preservation, not ownership.

[blunklaura]

Gorgeous continent,gorgeous rock (yes I agree,Uluru sounds better!),gorgeous song !

[Seattlecarnut]

Beautiful video. Beautiful song.

[JohnEltinAhern]

This song was originally written by Gordon Lightfoot - called 'The Soul is the Rock'.

it is blatant plagiarism by Williamson. Has anyone found any reference to the Gordon lightfoot or does Williamson claim to have written that melody (and some of the lyrics)? It's from Lightfoot's 1975 album 'Cold on the Shoulder'.

Lyrics (chorus):

Big rain comin'

Big rain comin' this way

Rain on the rock

Rain on the rock

The sea is the space which the rock has displaced etc..

[Leesidge]

@JohnEltinAhern there are some similarities, but its not the same song..and the words are not the same either..

[jamesabout]

No one is the owner of this rock or any other land. They are only care takers. This will be here long after we are all gone. I will respect any culture if it exsists. But as long as they make money from it... it is not a culture. It is profit. 

[mick13011985]

best song every should be the national anthem if we become a republic!!

[johnson1095]

i just can't help but wander what it would be like to look up at Ayers rock 200 years ago as an aborigine.

[johnson1095]

THIS SONG GIVES ME GOOSEBUMPS.

i wish i could travel to Australia!

[snakesteve68]

Uluru is a magical place that i hope to visit one day. To view it from the ground or from a plane would be grand.  Out of respect for the Aborigines I will not climb to the top because I feel that it would be imposing on their beliefs.

John Williamson is one of my all time favorite musicians and thank you for making this slide show--well done!

[waggrakine]

It is only referred to as Uluru now. The rest of the world has to accept it and get over it. You are coming to our country to look at our natural wonder. Treat it with the respect it deserves.

[bubblybabs]

Love this song! I had hoped to buy a video of John singing this song but it's not up on itunes for download...

[footyleganed]

is anybody dislikes this ur an idiot

[footyleganed]

fav song ever true blue aussie song luv it

[bubbaz88]

Uluru/Ayers whatever, either all of the earth is sacred or none of it is. Earth is not the universe, get over it! The "aboriginals" are as prone to the same faults as the rest of us and travel the same "paths". Now if any of you know of a religion/belief system that is not local/Earth based let me know. Or if you know the first name the first people that saw Uluru/Ayers gave it (about 30-40,000 year ago, more or less)........ What did the rock call itself before we namers showed up?

[ozdaveuk]

Yes tourists climb the rock. The aborigines are profiting from this. They were given ownership back over 20 years ago. They also own the motel there. All you people who making indignant sanctimonious comments about walking on altars etc. Don't know what you are talking about. It's not the Australian Government who permit this but the owners and they are still squabling about which tribe should it should have gone to.

[aaliyahsparrow]

Don't care what anyone says, it will always be Ayers Rock to me. We don't need to change everything to aboriginal names, we're just as much australian as they are. I don't call it Uluru, nothing anyone can ever say to me will change my mind.

[quint1990]

My roadtrip through Aussie, best half a year of my life... Advise to all the people, go and experience

[HughFromAlice]

Come back soon Wayne!

Translation (Hope no spelling mistakes in my Pitjantjara).

"Seeing that powerful special place makes me really happy...... no light showers, but really heavy rain is falling and it won't be long before eveything will be lush and green. Then everyone, both black and white, will be of one mind in thinking "this is really beautiful!"

[Aussieeeeeeee]

1 Word

Brilliant!

[waynejingo]

Living in Cornwall UK..... Missing my NT now though

[HughFromAlice]

@waynejingo

This IS a beautiful song. I love it best when Warren H Williams (Hermansburg)& JW sing it together.

After a v dry 2009 in Alice we have had several days of good soaking rains. It's raining right now :-). Probably raining on the Rock too.

Ngura milmilpa nyakula nyanga alitjitu ngaylulu ma pukularinyi....yarka wiya, yili pulka mulupa puyini munu, ngula tjukutjuku, okiri pulka ma pakini. Anangu maru munu anangu piyan tjunguringkula kulilku "nyangatja wiru mulupa nyinaku!"

[rocknrobyne]

just got back from NT...fantastic and oh so awesome, we watched it raining on the rock and sang this while we watched. Don't miss out on the Olgas too..Kata Tjuta...and the people we met where great too.

[tomwardle4forest]

I saw it rain but never saw these waterfalls :(

[P13god]

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!!!!!!!!!!!

[karyokinese]

Don't see any rain? When I was there on 10-31-2007 it rained beautiful! Waterfalls! Was very special to be there!

[WendyGrace11]

I was at Uluru with friends in May 2007. It rained. Waterfalls cascaded down the Rock, the wind blew veils of spray across it, and the waterholes filled. We felt so privelidged to be there. Later, we played and sang this song and danced in puddles! If you haven't been there, then go!

[lewsnakes]

beauty of song ;)

[Nichelmann]

Great!

[MichaelKrary]

Billy Meier has no knowledge of it being an artificial monument. It probably is a meteor that is laying on the surface of a gigantic crater.

[daveyork0]

Where's the rain?

[MexDeSerna]

we know it as ayers rock... actually nobody knows the name uluru..in my opinion the aboriginal names sound much better than the english ones...

[mrtibbs6912]

Thank you for your comment MexDeSerna. This is the reason I used both the names in the title. Yes "ULURU" does sound much better.

[IamSamuelK]

@mrtibbs6912  I disagree

[daveyork0]

ha ha ha

It was there long before Ayers wandered into the desert and tripped over it.

Just ask the Koori who live there now as their ancestors did for all time.

[Beanzzz1982]

@MexDeSerna actualy alot of us know it as Uluru

[whotles69]

oh my goodness, i was ther exactly one month before you were!

[vilainpetitcrapaud]

Wonderful picture, but I hate the title: No that's not Ayers rock but ULURU I saw a report that show tourists on this sacred area for aboriginals. Why the australian gouvernment accept that? The Native Australian don't wailk on the altars!!!

[mrtibbs6912]

You are so right what you have said here. I think our Australian Government has stopped it now. If they have it is about time I honoestly feel.

[Obsidean]

Come on now its a rock, the Aboriginals did not create it was naturally built. Its to beautiful for it to be restricted.

The only reason why the native people don't want anyone to climb it, is because they don't want any one to die.

Do you know the feeling of climbing it and just looking at the landscape from up high?

[Bazlowski]

yeh love this s@#t we just rang choppa but she wasnt bloody there probably rooting roberto

[raepaarman]

my wife & I were trying to do indigenous dancing in our lounge room to this song ... good fun

[nandhi321]

Great! J.W is wonderful and this is one of his best ever songs and a great video too.

[benji5157]

Viewing this video brought back so many happy memories of when I visited Uluru last summer

[usmc6674]

enjoyed the video very much. nice scenery.

Rev.J.C.Bliss

[groenea]

Wat church are you from reverend?

[usmc6674]

I am a Reverend with the Evangelical church. I was once an active duty U.S.Marine,but am still a Cpl.of Marines. Yes I have fought in a war. But what happened there is between GOD and I.

[dyball24]

i have been to the top of our true blue icon in our outback Australian country and have listened to this song up there and what a privledge it is to live in this beautiful land and be an Aussie

[GuruOne]

DAMN! This is a great song

I don't normally listen to J.W. but this track is too good to ignore

[folkiekev]

pastel red to burghundy, spinifex to gold... and its raining on the rock in this beautiful country!!!