Down Under 2012 (solo acoustic) Songtext
von Colin Hay

Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast

And she said, "Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can′t you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover"

Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscle
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich

And he said, "I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can′t you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover" yeah


Lying in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw and not much to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?"

And he said, "Oh, you come from a land down under?"
Ooh yeah, yeah
"Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can′t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover"

′Cause we are living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can′t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover

Living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can′t you hear the thunder?
Ooh yeah
Then I run and then I take cover
(Yeah)

We are living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you, can′t you hear the thunder?
Then I run then I take cover


'Cause we are living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can′t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover