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* HaveAGayOldTime: "Silly Slang Song" complains about how once innocent slang terms changed their meaning:

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* HaveAGayOldTime: In "Silly Slang Song" Song", the singer complains about how once innocent slang terms changed their meaning:

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* HypocriticalHumour: The main joke of "I Hate Wogs", highlighting what a dumb clueless redneck the singer is. He complains that migrants "can't speak proper English"[[note]]that should be "can't speak ''English properly"''[[/note]] and about their cuisine, asking why can't they just eat "Good Australian food", providing examples of "Good healthy stuff like [[NutritionalNightmare pie and sauce and chips and Chicko rolls]]". He refuses to eat at the Greek-owned chip shop because he "couldn't touch wog meat", instead preferring to [[ComicallyMissingThePoint go to the Chinese cafe across the road]]. He also complains about "lazy migrant bastards" he sees standing in the queue with him while he's waiting to pick up his dole cheque.



* WasItReallyWorthIt: "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", "No Man's Land"

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* WasItReallyWorthIt: "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", "No Man's Land"Land". The latter in particular comes down fairly hard on the side of "no":
-->Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame\\
The killing and dying, it was all done in vain\\
Oh Willy [=McBride=] it all happened again\\
And again, and again, and again, and again
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* AllGuitarsAreStratocasters: Averted in "Eric and the Informers" by Music/EricBogle, which is about his first ever band. In the chorus, in which he names the band members, he mentions both the Stratocaster and the seldom acknowledged Fender Telecaster:
-->''Teddy played the Telecaster,\\
Tom played the Srat''

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