When the sun is shining on Australia's happy land Round countless fires, in strange attire in many solemn of glum Australians as the lunch goes up in flames By the smoke and the smell you can plainly tell, that it's barby again
When the are burning fiercely, when the smoke gets in your eyes When the sausges taste like fried toothpaste and your driven mad with a national institution, it's the aussie thing to do So come along mate and grab your plate, have a barbecue!
The eat lots of haggis, the French eat snails and frogs The throw kakis on their mousakis, and the Chinese love hot dogs The Welshmen love to have a leek, the Irish like stew But you just can't that half-cooked meat at an Aussie barbeque
When the steaks are burning fiercely, when the smoke gets in eyes When the sausges taste like fried toothpaste and your mad with flies a national institution, it's the aussie thing to do So come mate and grab your plate, let's have a barbecue.
There's flies stuck to the margarine, the bread has gone hard The are fighting and the mossies are biting, who forgot the Aerogard? bull ants in the eskie, and the beer is running out And what you saw in Mum's cole slaw, you just don't think
When the are burning fiercely, when the smoke gets in your eyes When the taste like fried toothpaste and your driven mad with flies It's a institution, it's the aussie So come on mate and grab plate, let's have a barbecue.
And when the barby's over and homeward way you wend With a funny tummy on the family dummy, many lonely you'll spend You might yourself reflecting, like many often do Come rain or shine the bloody last time that you'll have a barbecue!
the steaks are burning fiercely, when the smoke gets in your eyes When the sausges taste like fried toothpaste and your driven mad with It's a national institution, it's ausssie to do So come on mate and your plate, let's have a barbeque