710. I Still Call Australia Home (Peter Allen)

As I'm about to fly back to Hong Kong tomorrow, I thought this was an appropriate song as I leave my native Australia yet again to lead the expat life. In particular, it was a rare chance to be accompanied by my son on the keyboard, a vintage Roland D20.

Written in 1980, this song expresses the expatriate's love for his native country. Peter Allen is an Australian, but has lived in the USA for most of his career.

Some Australians regard this song as excessively sentimental and more typical of American culture rather than the traditional Australian attitude of "No worries. mate. She'll be right!" To others it is a beautiful and moving song about love of one's country.

It has been taken up by QANTAS, Australia's international airline, for use in their commercials, where it is sung by the QANTAS Choir, which actually comprises the National Boys Choir of Australia and the Australian Girls Choir. (They changed "Rio" to "Rome" though, as QANTAS doesn't fly to Rio!) It is also often sung by Welsh Male Voice Choirs, including the Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir, of which I am proud to be a member.

(The above information is adapted from Wikipedia.)

You can see a playlist of my Australian songs here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0DE11C284435E7A2

For lyrics and chords of all my songs, please see my website: http://www.raymondcrooke.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• folk
• song
• australia
• america
• expatriate
• patriotism
• qantas
• hong
• kong
• welsh
• male
• voice
• choir

[theWanderingLark]

Beautiful!

[raymondcrooke]

@theWanderingLark Thank you.

[MrIzzydye]

Good song, thanks blokes!

[raymondcrooke]

@MrIzzydye No worries, mate!

[JerseyBob86]

Very nice rendition of the Peter Allen classic!

[raymondcrooke]

@JerseyBob86 Thanks for watching.

[raymondcrooke]

@CoverMarguerite Thanks for listening.

[CoverMarguerite]

Beautiful australian song! I like it!

[tonijn1969]

Roland D20???

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks for visiting my channel.