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Bradman the liberator.(Devine)(Sir Donald Bradman)(Ashes Test matches and Australian - British relations)

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| May 01, 2005 | Devine, Frank | COPYRIGHT 2005 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
   You all live in a convict colony, 
   A convict colony, a convict colony ... 

--song of the Barmy Army, English cricket supporters

 
   I'd rather be a Paki than a Pom. 
   Oh, I'd rather be a Paki than a Pom, Pom, Pom ... 

--musical riposte of Australian cricket supporters

AHA, I thought, on first hearing these anthems sung at the Ashes Test in Sydney in 03, Australians and Englishmen are saying what they really think of each other at last. Good-oh. For all the softening by music, humour, grandstand camaraderie and the passage of time, the lyrics captured pretty neatly the patronising style of the colonial master and the spluttering ...


    
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