The Bushwackers 'I Am Australian'

The Bushwackers performing "I Am Australian" at Music City Roots live from the Loveless Cafe on 9.25.2013

[shyngo]

There ain’t a shred of Aussie in me, but this song always makes me tear up. 😢❤

[Tubatoofpaste]

The passionate way the band perform here shows that I am Australian is a perfect song for an Australian anthem

[laurieduncan]

Fantastic song ...sung by an Australian legend who wrote the song. He sang this at my brother in law’s memorial recently... they played cricket together. Yes, it definitely should be our anthem

[taniabrougham]

I just watched them on the voice and they still have it 😊

[RonLee]

Like so many others Australians, I believe that this should be our national anthem.

[redllaw]

I'm a Scots Irish Celt AUSTRALIAN and this music calls to me!!

[andrewwhite]

A real delight to stumble across this performance. Many would agree that without the Bushwackers, Aussie colonial / trad folk wouldn't have made it past the 1970s. The song - Aussie sentimentality hot'n'strong.

[CJM]

👏👏👏Absolutely awesome!🙌 Though I am an immigrant to Australia, this song always makes me feel like a true blue Aussie. Though it isn’t the national anthem, it’s my Aussie National Anthem. Thank You, Dobe, Bruce and Bushwackers.❤️🇦🇺

[juliemacdonald]

I must say I do prefer the standard order of the verses, popularised by the Seekers, if only because that way if feels as if it’s telling the story of Australia from past to present, but Dobe sings it with such passion and feeling, you just feel regret at missing the verses, then joy to realise he has placed them in a different way. An amazing performance, told by a true storyteller, as an immigrant who has become Australian, and having two daughters who are so proud to have been born Australian, not to mention a person who feels songs very deeply, this song has me in tears every time I listen to it. I do like our national anthem, but I think this song would not only be sung with pride, but with genuine feelings that the singer can relate to the words. I would certainly join the chorus to make this our national anthem, I think in the hearts of most people it already is.

[richardmcnamara]

I’m Irish and somehow this hits home. Not for Irish living is Australia but for those living at home too

[geoffreyhansen]

This is an excellent version of the song.

[pode]

This song fills my heart for my country and its people...not like the other stupid song we have sung forever

[Mischa_Tye]

Fuckin oath, excuse the French.. this song has me crying. Good tears though ❤❤

[gafpa]

Sadly, the first verse is missing

I came from the dream-time
From the dusty red-soil plains
I am the ancient heart
The keeper of the flame
I stood upon the rocky shores
I watched the tall ships come
For forty thousand years I've been
The first Australian

[douglaspell]

Used to play cricket with Dobe in the 49ers, great bloke!

[tegg]

Great to hear this rendition of this superb song sung with a Aussie accent and style. The Seeker versions are great but there voices are very sort of refined upper English pompous accents. This the real Aussie style.

[JBurdoo]

Are these the same as the 70s'-80s Bushwackers band?

[taniabrougham]

I husband says the government should use this song for the coming election instead of John farnhams song cause no matter what our heritage is we are all one no matter what

[paulnorton]

I hope nobody thinks that I have been disrespectful towards this excellent song by using it as the basis of a song parody about the Murdoch tabloid in the one newspaper town that I live in.

[jackthomson]

This is for a Australia , which has virtually gone.
When Australia was virtually Anglo Saxons and European.
Nobody thrn would have imagined what has happened. Millions of Chinese , Indians, Muslims
Asians Sudanese ect.
Most of whom would not understand , that Australia.
Sadly in 50-70 years Australia will be a ASIAN COUNTRY.
Great Song though .
As said that Australia has hone