“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.”
Chunder?
Some kinda’ Australian thing? You think it just rhymed well with “Thunder” and “under”?
Inkz
Yes Nickerz, I’m mindful of copyright violations…
A substantial portion of the language of Oz consists of euphemisms for regurgitation. It has something to do with having nothing to do in the outback but get drunk, abuse the abos, and, um, watch the sheep.
I thought it was “Where women blow and men blunder.”
Where I come from, cookies that have been tossed are also known as “Thunder Chunder Chowder”.
TT
“Believe those who seek the truth.
Doubt those who find it.” --Andre Gide
Nickrz, you have a filthy mind…
We use ‘chunder’ at home (NW England) frequently, a ‘Tactical Chunder’ being the requirement to expel previously consumed beer in order that more can be consumed. Doesn’t make much sense economically, but not much does when you’re hoofed.
I think Nickrz was closer than anyone else.
I went to AltaVista and searched for +“land down under” +“better take cover” +thunder
It returned 39 hits. All of the first ten said
Somebody give Casey Kasem a call. When that song was on his TOP 40 program, he went down a list of all the Aussie terms. I don’t remember what any of them were, but I seem to recall (as he pronounced it) was “. . . men shunder.”
I think “fried out combie” meant a broken-down VW.
I think they’re both right. Here are the lyrics.
1st Stanza blah blah blah
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.”
Third stanza blah blah blah
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.”
Fifth blah blah you know what I mean
And he said,
“Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh 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.”
Keeves, you wingnut, it’s the second chorus.
Oy, I’m sorry I brought it up (PUN!).
Inkz
http://members.aol.com/babsjdonne/menatwrk/discog/lyrics/downund.htm
That’s the url. Sorry I didn’t put it up above.
Sing it with me…
Missys in trouble!
Missys in trouble!
Nya nya na na nya!
Inkz
It figures. I’ve been having one of those Monday 2 - The Sequel kind of days.
sigh
ooops… i’m gonna go back to writing stuff that i actually know things about… have a nice weekend y’all…
All this talk is making me hungry!
smiles & Take bite of Vegamite sandwich
Yer pal,
Satan
Chunder: verb. To throw up. To chuck. To blow chunks. To call up God on the great white telephone. To drive the porcelain bus.
Thank you. All you had to do was ask me, is that so difiicult?
It’s a very descriptive term, referring, I would guess, to the pre-amble your stomach makes when you know it’s gonna happen.
And Vegemite isn’t the cause, in case you were wondering. (I prefer Marmite, anyway)
“So what you are telling me, Percy, is that something you have never seen is slightly less blue than something else that you have never seen.”
It is to vomit, and on the Men at Work greatest hits album they address this precise question, and they did write Chunder and meant vomit while drunk. So its not some geek coping lyrics as best he can, and making up the blurry parts.
There is a great book by George Chunder called Screw Unto Others.
Nobody said things would be easy,and nobody was right-George Bush.