Pogues, The - South Australia Lyrics

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Who is nano

Sang just the way only the pouges know how!! GREAT

Many of my ancestors were shipped to South Australia.....

Go Port Adelaide Power

It would have been fun to see this recorded.

Go the Power

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Who the fuck is NANO

A great Northern English sea shanty

Im German normal i sing ERIKA

最不敢聽新加坡民歌。

點解不是澳洲人唱澳洲？

Rip durfus

I would love to have Capt. Stone do a full cover. Hearing the tanks in the background was pretty neat

What a fun version of this song.

Me being from South Australia I can confirm this is factually correct

Thank you Nano, i didnt know this song about my state existed

I’m just another guy from Nano’s video, don’t mind me.

NANO brings people together ☺

Capt. Stone and Nano fans? You here?

Nano's videos

I'm here because of Capt. Stone beautiful singing, thanks nano for sharing that man singing.

He sounds better. Very soothing.

Ahahahahahahah me too😂😂

Shut the fuck up about Nano, you’re not special and it’s fucking cringe.

Just came here from Nano`s video

@_mzm_ absolutely

I didn't even know Nano put this in one of his videos I just like this song.

This song is dope and totally a good drinking song!

While this is a good version of the song it’s not the one capt. was singing it was the sea-shanty version.

who come after nano's video ?

benjy500c we did

@Alexander page nice :D

benjy500c me

benjy500c me lmao

Nano brought me here

We used to sing this is primary school!!

The legislature of South Australia should definitely make it their anthem. I hope they have a legislature in South Australia.

South Australia is a sea shanty, also known under such titles as "Rolling King" and "Bound for South Australia". As an original worksong it was sung in a variety of trades, including being used by the wool and later the wheat traders who worked the clipper ships between Australian ports and London. In adapted form, it is now a very popular song among folk music performers that is recorded by many artists and is present in many of today's song books. (Wikipedia)
The Pogues do a great job! I love listening to this version. I learnt the song (same tune as The Pogues) as a child in the early 1960s, as I was born in South Australia.

Conosciuta grazie alla promo di Top Gear Australia 🤣🇦🇺 e poi io credevo che fossero Australiani ma sono anglo irlandesi

Shane looks like an original crimmie sent to Oz for some petty ass crime. Love it.

Met a fella from cairns his name was richard his heritage was papau new Guinea he was the ultimate wanker that was in London in 2015

Play this song when in the gym on the rowing machine...........not heard it for years.....doh

One of their best! They really rocked this one.

Some Mother's Son?

my gf comes from south australia !!!

While this is so damned good and quintessentially The Pogues, I love when Bernie McKenna did this one with The Dubliners! But still, done so well here.

Haul away ye rollin' kings

💚💚💚💚💗💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

Banger!

Ride Me Sideways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIRsqg8ihzw Kerry Polka by the Pogues.

South Australia was the only state that convicts weren't sent - that's the significance of the song, if you were heading to SA you were going by choice.

They didn't send convicts to Victoria either. All my ancestors are from S.A. and Vic, so I know I'm free of criminal blood. ;)

They do sound like a bunch of ruffians haha

I sang this in primary school in Byron bay, for some reason.....ive always wanted to heave away

OREOAK!!!

Hello from South Australia !

Badass!

What a load of Irish crap. Regards Germany.

germany is nazis

Leaving Miss Nancy Blare's behind.

Look at those ears!

Makes me want to pass out on the Glenelg tram

gimmie a tipple

An amazing song!!!

Give me some of that Blubber!

Australia Lions tour 2013

up came the bottle of smoke

Meine Lektorin hat gesagt, es kommt nie etwas Besseres nach.

Flipping brilliant

Bluddy buggry blks ... i miss this so m,uch

Sjøforsvaret any1?

1701 kull

South Australia is boring ( I'm from south Australia deal with it)

zimbabwer funbucks that's why they left

are you also 12?

I love shanes voice but always loved to here other pogues at lead mike... spider, terry woods or at live gigs philip on thousands are sailing. greatest band in existance. philip r.i.p. god bless him god love him god judge and shame him

Singing this in choir FELL IN LOVE

J'adore The Pogues depuis mes 15 ans et j'en 47 ans et j'écoute toujours et mes enfants aiment aussi!!!!! Revenais en France !!! 😜😘

👍👍👍👍👍👍

I love how at the very end, you can here one of the members just go,"...Shit...".

grandi molto grandi very besr

which pogue sings this??

James fearnly

Terry Woods, second in from the right with the banjo

ima go with the Terry Woods answer, since James Fearnly isnt listed as a Vocalist on linear notes.... but i can only believe what im told lol.

The guy with the banjo is Jem Finer, Terry Woods is the guy behind him with the Mandolin, and terry was the vocalist on this song...just saying what a brilliant version this is.

What a great song.

ahh the good old irish screech (shane did it best in sic bed of cullinghan) pardon me if i fucked up the spelling as i am lazy

Used to yell allong to this song with my dad while we were doing hard work on the farm

Y' pair of soft Landlubbers ;-)

PULL THEM SPUDS BUD

same haha

THEE IRISH IN AUSTRALIA HOPE WE DO GOOD SORRY AUSTRALIA HAHA

Done us proud, bucko.

new south wales

almost sounds like Bruce Dickinson

Yet another shanti tale :-)

why should we be so paranoid in2016 1989 most aussies would of known FAfuc. all. ,about allah..
now its just in our face
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this small minority has so much reverence on our lives

whom has uploaded??

whats your name ,mate!! beware .....people

South STRAYAAAAAAAH!

Andrew Edward It's south Astrayah, get it right lol jk Funny fucking comment mate

Not a "charnce"

Does anyone know what the tune is that starts at 1.59? I've heard it used in another song and have learned it but have no idea what it's called.

+Glen Barton It's a Kerry Polka. I can't be more specific than that, though.

edit: apparently it's their own take on "Salmon Tails Up the Water": https://thesession.org/tunes/2903

Seems really close to red haired Mary

+Glen Barton I seem to think it's Flowers of Edinburgh. Not positive about that, but I remember playing it as part of a medley in a ceilidh band once.

hrotha The Bushwackers used "Sailors Hornpipe" a lot as the instrumental break.

Siege of Ennis is the tune.

At 3.22 you can hear someone say "Shit!" Gotta love The Pogues :D

+Daniel Redmond I remember putting this track on a tape for my kids when they were little. I thought "Oh they'll never notice that little expletive at the end." first time my daughter played it, it ended and she announces, "HE SAID 'SHIT'!"

Heave away , haul away!!!!

I was on the US Navy for ten years , the last four on a Cruiser in the Pacific Fleet . We were sailing to Esperance South Australia for a port visit . I wanted our ship to play this song when we broke away from the replenishment ship that supplied us in the Indian Ocean before we got there . But our Captain was a Mennonite , Shaker, Quaker , type of religionist , and I was afraid he'd hear the "Shit" at the end of the song . So we played "Waltzing Matilda " instead . Another time we were heading to Singapore and i wanted to play "Singapore" by Tom Waits , but as our Captain was short of stature , I though he'd take offense at the line "The Captain is a one eye'd dwarf , he's throwing dice along the wharf . "

Fan-bloody-tastic.

This is a good song to exercise to, although sometimes it gets me a little too pumped up and I end up feeling near death's door when I'm finished. The instrumental part at the end also makes me wish I'd learned Irish dancing in childhood.

@CaroLouWho Me and one of me mates used to irish dance to this when we were pissed good days!!

+Neil Carroll lol

@John Galt Oh no, it's the no fun police!

I aso done this song in my school

@autumn clarke you should have stayed in school! *also *did

That is The Best Fucking song I have ever heard. 🍀

It's fucking HSBC

It's fucking May 2013

+conor finn I didn't say knobhead ya tit, sea world....... Oaft

Are you still here?

Saw this live in Sydney 1988. FUCKING BRILLIANT.

harold park trots?

yuup yup 7up

Haul away...

i love it - found it by chance looking at pogues songs. 

Aye, and Salmond and blind patriotism is?

Scotland will remain in the Union as they know what is good for them.

This is an old sea shanty. Good on the Pogues for claiming it. Well done, lads.

What's with all the wops commenting?

All I can hear is "bippity boppity bafangoul" anytime they talk