Redgum - H.M.A.S. Australia lyrics

Here I am again in the ship's post office I want to send a telegram Send it to the captain Asking where the hell I am I've been on this luxury cruise For twenty five years or more And I've just begun to wonder Where we're headed for Band keeps playing American songs from 1973 Getting wise to the officer's lies That we've even got a country You say we're independent And we've even got the right to choose Well we're sick of doing nothing We'd like some work, We'd like some work, We'd like some work to do Swimming pools, the co*ktail parties You keep us plied with drink But when we cruised through South East Asia It made us stop and think We never take on pa**engers Though we seem to have lots of room And I can't escape the notion captain That this is a floating tomb Band keeps playing American songs from 1973 Getting wise to the officer's lies That we've even got a country You say we're independent And we've even got the right to choose Well we're sick of doing nothing We'd like some work, We'd like some work, We'd like some work to do Some of us have calculated We must be short of oil Someone mentioned fission And blood began to boil The pa**engers are restless, captain This is how they feel Angry at how it came to be you Who sits beside the wheel Band keeps playing American songs from 1973 Getting wise to the officer's lies That we've even got a country You say we're independent And we've even got the right to choose Well we're sick of doing nothing We'd like some work, We'd like some work, We'd like some work to do And the band keeps playing the Imperial Waltz From far across the sea Not a long way from discontent To open mutiny You say we're independent And we've even got the right to choose Well we're sick of being pa**engers, We've got some work, We've got some work, We've got some work to do