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I Still Call Australia Home
Composer: Peter Allen
I've been to cities that never close down
from New York to Rio and old London town,
but no matter how far or how wide I roam
I still call Australia home.
I'm always traverling, I love being free,
and so I keep leaving the sun and the sea,
but my heart lies waiting over the foam.
I still call Australia home.
All the sons and daughters spinning 'round the
world,
away from their family and friends,
but as the world gets older and colder,
it's good to know where your journey ends.
But someday we'll all be together once more
when all of the ships come back to the shore.
Then I realise something I've always known.
I still call Australia home.
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"I Still Call Australia
Home" is a song written and performed by Peter Allen. In
it, Allen sings of the expatriate's longing for home.
It has been used to suggest Australian patriotism and
nostalgia: for example, in Qantas television commercials
where it was sung by the National Boys Choir, Australia
and Australian Girls Choir (sometimes the group is
collectively called the Qantas Choir). It was also used
in a musical, The Boy from Oz, about Allen's life, which
starred Hugh Jackman.
Although public performances of "I Still Call Australia
Home" have increased in number over the years,
Australians remain divided over the song. Many see it as
a beautiful and moving song about love for their
country; others are embarrassed by what they regard as
an excessive sentimentality not traditionally part of
Australian culture, but usually associated with the
United States, where Allen lived for most of his career.
In the version of the song used by Qantas, "Rio" is
replaced by "Rome". Qantas does not operate flights to
Rio de Janeiro, but does fly to the Italian capital.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Still_Call_Australia_Home
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