January 26 Songtext
von A.B. Original feat. Dan Sultan

You can call it what you want
But it just don′t mean a thing
No, it just don't mean a thing
Fuck that, homie
You can come and wave your flag
But it don′t mean a thing to me
No, it just don't mean a thing
Fuck that, homie

You can call it what you want
But it just don't mean a thing
No, it just don′t mean a thing
Fuck that, homie
You can come and wave your flag
But it don′t mean a thing to me
No, it just don't mean a thing
Fuck that, homie


They said, "Hey Briggs, pick a date" (okay)
"You know, one we can celebrate" (for sure)
"Where we can come together
Talk about the weather, call that Australia Day"

I said, "How about March 8th?" (That′s a good one)
And we can do it on your Nan's grave (got that, bitch?)
We can piss up, piss on her face
Get lit up and burn out like Mark Skaife

They screamin′ "love it or leave it" (love it)
I got more reason to be here, if you could believe it
Won't salute a constitution or who′s underneath it
Turn that flag to a noose, put a cease to your breathin'

I can't get in my whip, I get a ticket for that
I get a DWB, and that′s a "Driving Whilst Black"
I turn the other cheek, I get a knife in my back
And I tell ′em it hurts, they say I overreact
So fuck that (fuck that)


You can call it what you want
But it just don't mean a thing
No, it just don′t mean a thing
(Hey Briggs!) Fuck that, homie
You can come and wave your flag
But it don't mean a thing to me
No, it just don′t mean a thing

I said celebrate the heretic anytime outside Jan 26 (anytime)
That's the date for them suckers doin′ that sucker shit (that's true)
That's that land takin′, flag wavin′ attitude
Got this new Captain Cook dance to show you how to move (move it)

How you wanna raise a flag with a rifle
To make us want to celebrate anything but survival?
Nah, you watchin' telly for The Bachelor
But wouldn′t read a book about a fuckload of massacres? (What?)

I remember all the blood and what carried us (I remember)
They remember 20 recipes for Lamingtons (yum)
Yeah, their ancestors got a boatride
Both mine saw them comin' until they both died

Fuck celebratin′ days made of misery (fuck that)
White Oz still got the black history (that's true)
And that shirt will get you banned from the parliament
If you ain′t havin' a conversation, well, then we startin' it

You can call it what you want
But it just don′t mean a thing
No, it just don′t mean a thing
Fuck that, homie
You can come and wave your flag
But it don't mean a thing to me
No, it just don′t mean a thing
No, it just don't mean a thing

Nah, it just don′t mean a thing
No, it just don't mean a thing
Nah, it just don′t mean a thing
No, it just don't mean a thing
Nah, it just don't mean a thing
No, it just don′t mean a thing
Nah, it just don′t mean a
Motherfuckin' thing
No, it just don′t mean a thing

Wave it, wave it, baby
Wave it, wave it (eat the flag)
Wave it, wave it mama
Wave that flaggy (wear the flag)
Wave it, wave it, baby (what you gonna do?)
Wave it, wave it (wave it, baby)
Wave it, wave it mama
Wave that flaggy