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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 ...