![]() ![]() It's really about the plundering of the country by greedy people. It was a song about the loss of spirit in that country. The chorus is really about the selling of Australia in many ways, the overdevelopment of the country. Speaking to Songfacts about the overall meaning of the lyric, Hay remarked: The song also contains the refrain where beer does flow and men chunder. ![]() " Hippie trail" refers to a subcultural tourist route popular in the 1960s and 1970s which stretched from Western Europe to South-East Asia. In Australian slang, "fried-out" means that it's in really poor condition and overheating, "Kombi" is short for "Kombinationskraftwagen" and refers to the Volkswagen Type 2, and "full of zombie" refers to the use of a type of marijuana. It opens with the singer travelling in a fried-out Kombi, on a hippie trail, head full of zombie. Slang and drug terms are featured in the lyric. Hay has said the lyric was partly inspired by Barry Humphries' character Barry McKenzie, a comically stereotypical Australian who tours abroad. The story is based in part on singer Colin Hay's own travels abroad, including a prominent reference to a Vegemite sandwich (a popular snack in Australia), which derived from an encounter with a tall baker from Brussels who emigrated from Brunswick, Melbourne. The lyric to "Down Under" depicts an Australian man travelling the globe, meeting people who are interested in his home country. In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time so far, "Down Under" was ranked number 2 behind Cold Chisel's " Khe Sanh". "Down Under" is perceived as a patriotic song in Australia it remains popular and is often played at sporting events. 1 in Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Switzerland, and was a top 10 hit in many other countries. In the UK, the song topped the charts in January and February 1983: the only Men at Work song to make the UK top 20. Topping the US Billboard chart for four non-consecutive weeks, it eventually sold over two million copies in the US alone. In the United States, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on 6 November 1982 at No. The song topped the Canadian charts in October 1982. The hit song went to number one in their home country Australia in December 1981, and then topped the New Zealand charts in February 1982. The best-known version was then released on Columbia in 1981 as the second single from their debut album Business as Usual (1981). The early version of "Down Under" has a slightly different tempo and arrangement from the later Columbia release. Both early songs were written by the group's co-founders, Colin Hay and Ron Strykert. It was originally released in 1980 as the B-side to their first local single, "Keypunch Operator", released before the band signed with Columbia Records. " Down Under" is a song recorded by Australian rock band Men at Work. ![]()
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