This actually gives me goosebumps everytime I listen to it!!!! makes me smile & enjoy singing along... unlike the drone along of when this song is mostly sung! HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY to all the proud aussies out there!!!! We rock!!!
Yes Thinfatman, that's you. I think this is a great clip, and I also serve my country, narrowminded people like you are what keep this country down... Go Aussies. Let's be proud to be Australian!!
oh my god!! he's fantastic i love the way he sings loud ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR!!! Australians r amazing!!! i'm italian n one day ill move to Australia just to listen to this great mate (and his beautiful aussie accent) :D
Hell Yeah , this would ROCK at the footy grand finals , or the grand prix , bathurst races. At least people would join in and rock on with it... LOVE IT Adam Hill your a legend;
It depends what you're referring to. The original song "Advanced Australia Fair" as composed by Peter Dodds McCormick in 1878/9 had four verses. There is another verse by an anonymous composer which sometimes found its way onto song sheets (hence the fifth verse). But when Advance Australia Fair was finally adopted as the national anthem only two verses were adopted. So yes the *song* Advance Australia Fair has four or five verses. But the Australian *national anthem* has only two verses.
We use 'gert' near where I live (Bristol, UK,) but we don't use it to mean surrounded. Normally used with lush to describe something good ("That's gert lush.") Anyway..I think this is awesome. I love Adam Hills :D
According to my dictionary Girth means. 1. the measure around anything; circumference. 2. a band that passes underneath a horse or other animal to hold a saddle in place, esp. one having a buckle at each end for fastening to straps running from under the flaps of the saddle. 3. something that encircles; a band or girdle. verb (used with object) 4. to bind or fasten with a girth. 5. to girdle; encircle. No. 3 and 5 seem accurate here. Another spelling is girt.
my school has a tallent show every year and you perform infront of your house and then they vote on an act that is then performed infront of the whole school. I think next year i'll do this!
ok if you live in sydney then you will see on the f3 all the bush and alot of the highways! but mainland sydney there isnt any bush. but when you drive out of sydney out are surrounded by bush. which isnt a bad thing. i love sydney and i love australia. and ive been living here for 20 solid years. and adam hill nailed that!
@PopLuverGal our high school thought it was necessary to make us sing it there too. but they also said socks other than white ones were detention worthy, so they were fucked in the head anyway.
Templedelagloire I agree, Adam Hills is great on his show " The last leg" & was great on "Adam Hills Tonight" & "Gordon street Tonight" & with the original version of "Spicks & Specks" , he's underutilized as a performer & should also form a band {2 be lead singer, at least 4 charity albums & fund raising concerts}.
Girt is an alternative spelling of girth, an old english spelling it would seem. So the alternative meaning for girt and girth, to encircle or surround. Seems to fit well with the meaning of the anthem.
Fucking awesome! I remember when i was really little my primary School sang both verses and i was like ahhh fuck this. But Adam should take this to parliment =D
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This actually gives me goosebumps everytime I listen to it!!!!
makes me smile & enjoy singing along... unlike the drone along of when this song is mostly sung!
HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY to all the proud aussies out there!!!! We rock!!!
I never thought the Australian Anthem could ever be epic or awesome. But Adam Hills proved me wrong. Frickin' kickass.
lol I remember seeing this on the TV for the first time and thinking it was the best thing ever. Ihave the CD single of this lying around somewhere.
he has such a great voice as well as being fabulously funny - adam hills is the total package!
I’ve had this saved for 15 years?! Hahaha it’s still perfect
It actually sounds really good like this. This should be our anthem
Yes Thinfatman, that's you. I think this is a great clip, and I also serve my country, narrowminded people like you are what keep this country down... Go Aussies. Let's be proud to be Australian!!
we need this australians needs this to be the National Anthem
I'll take this into consideration.
This is bloody brilliant. This really should be the way the national anthem should be sung. God bless this brilliant country of ours.
i would seriously love this to be the new national anthem lol
Absolutely We are Lucky. We have Humour, & when times get tough we all put in.
oh my god!! he's fantastic
i love the way he sings loud ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR!!!
Australians r amazing!!! i'm italian n one day ill move to Australia just to listen to this great mate (and his beautiful aussie accent)
:D
Yeah, he sang it at ours at the Enmore. It sounded so cool with the whole crowd singing along!
omfg how the hell did I miss this for so long? this has got my vote!
Must be one of the best national anthems ever if it can be rocked out like this!
I lovee his personality. Such a beautiful character.
I'm inspired. As an English person I'm now wondering if we can fit God Save the Queen to Bohemian Rhapsody. We could air guitar to the Queen
Haahahah, dude that's fantastic! Who knew he could sing like that!
"And now the second verse that no one ever knows."
Hell Yeah , this would ROCK at the footy grand finals , or the grand prix , bathurst races. At least people would join in and rock on with it... LOVE IT Adam Hill your a legend;
He is such a nice guy in person and completely nuts, but that's what makes him and all his songs so amazing :D
This is FANTASTIC! Plz plz PLZ MAKE THIS OUR Anthem! I woud love to sing this every day istead of the one we have now!
WOW!!! that had me in stitches, awesomenesssssss :D
I love this version. I couldn't stop singing it.
Adam, you are brilliant.
Adam Hills is my hero!!! XD
He's funny as hell, can joke about missing his leg, and is a pretty good singer XD
"Respect your mum!"
Dude i serisouly agree, this wayof singing our anthem kicks ass man !
woah the rhythm actually fits like perfectly!! =D awesome guy lol
Best. Anthem. Ever.
love this even i am not Australian I love Aussie
If the Australian anthem gets reworked into Working Class Man, I'm packing my bags and moving there immediately. Adam Hills is bloody brilliant. :D
LOVE this so much!!! :)
This pisses all over our shoddy official version of the Australian National Anthem.
Adam Hills, you are great!
Would you look at that? He can sing!
I love how everyone joins in... Go Adam!
This is brilliant. I wonder how long it took him to find a song that fit that perfectly.
It depends what you're referring to.
The original song "Advanced Australia Fair" as composed by Peter Dodds McCormick in 1878/9 had four verses. There is another verse by an anonymous composer which sometimes found its way onto song sheets (hence the fifth verse). But when Advance Australia Fair was finally adopted as the national anthem only two verses were adopted. So yes the *song* Advance Australia Fair has four or five verses. But the Australian *national anthem* has only two verses.
We use 'gert' near where I live (Bristol, UK,) but we don't use it to mean surrounded. Normally used with lush to describe something good ("That's gert lush.")
Anyway..I think this is awesome. I love Adam Hills :D
thats the best vresion of our anthem i've eaver heard!
Adam mate, you've made me want to move to Australia
According to my dictionary Girth means.
1. the measure around anything; circumference.
2. a band that passes underneath a horse or other animal to hold a saddle in place, esp. one having a buckle at each end for fastening to straps running from under the flaps of the saddle.
3. something that encircles; a band or girdle.
verb (used with object) 4. to bind or fasten with a girth.
5. to girdle; encircle.
No. 3 and 5 seem accurate here. Another spelling is girt.
its bloody terrific!!
Why Cant it really be like this? BLOODY AMAZING!
He's my hero. He's got one leg, but he is still one og the funniest people i know.
I LOVE YOU ADAM!
OMG!! Australia should change their anthem to this! It would be amazing!!! I would listen to it all day and I'm Canadian!
That is now the greatest national anthem in the world ever.
His voice is amazing x
lol love it
so this seriously needs to be our anthem.
next time it has to be sung somewhere im singing this one :) lol
yeahh he is so funny have seen some videos now with him. He's good
We should petition for this to be our new anthem. ^^
i never knew he is a good singer! love it.
I endorse this 100% we need a new tune, and this is it
@DNX73R that's what i was thinking!
im italian and i was singing this out loud!!!
if someone sang my anthem like he does i'd probably get mad :D
This is amazing. Imagine Barnesy singin' this at the NRL grand final...!!
Who ever knew Adam could sing!
thumbs up absoulute legend thats the real national anthem
We saw this when he first performed it...
We still sing the anthem this way. lol
This should so be the Aussie National Anthem!!!!
Is it bad that I know the Australian National anthem better then my own, England.
I would so sing this EVERYDAY.
oh my god. this would be freakin' epic!
man if they had this when we had to get up on parade every day and sing i would be like AWESOME
Totally! That was awesome :)
Brilliant version of the National Anthem... and very funny too!
Hills is a Legend.
And yes I to get goosebumps :)
Who knew he could do impro so well, i wanted him to come on with a guitar and do an awesome guitar solo, if only he could do that for our NA (British)
love this!!! love that Aussies are able to laugh at anything, even the national anthem :)
love this!
im not an aussie but yes that would be one heck of an anthem for australia!...adam hills is GREAT!!!
I want to see this national anthem at the Brissie Olympics!!!!
my school has a tallent show every year and you perform infront of your house and then they vote on an act that is then performed infront of the whole school. I think next year i'll do this!
We should so do it like that, that is soo good we need to debate on changing it like that!
ok if you live in sydney then you will see on the f3 all the bush and alot of the highways! but mainland sydney there isnt any bush.
but when you drive out of sydney out are surrounded by bush. which isnt a bad thing. i love sydney and i love australia. and ive been living here for 20 solid years.
and adam hill nailed that!
@PopLuverGal our high school thought it was necessary to make us sing it there too. but they also said socks other than white ones were detention worthy, so they were fucked in the head anyway.
@schs1977 I'm from TN, and have been in Sydney since December. Hi!
absolutely brilliant
now thats a national anthem to be proud of :)
Come out with ya hands up we have U "Girt" ..LOL love it !
What do we have to do to make this our australian anthem?
i love it...we need it for the rugby world cup next year.
saw him playin footy in ireland at the cats laugh match
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wish i cud of met him but he dissapeared after lmao
I'd actually stand for this.
bloody brilliant!
as an american who has absolutely no right to have an opinion, i'd just to say, this guy has a point!
loves it.
Bloody awesome
I just watch the actual 2012 thing last night (I think) AND THEY HAD EXACTLY THE SAME PERFORMANCES IN SOME PARTS?!
YEAHHH ADAM!!! XD
When did the lyrics to Advance Australia Fair change?
he's a good singer
Templedelagloire I agree, Adam Hills is great on his show " The last leg" & was great on "Adam Hills Tonight" & "Gordon street Tonight" & with the original version of "Spicks & Specks" , he's underutilized as a performer & should also form a band {2 be lead singer, at least 4 charity albums & fund raising concerts}.
best national anthem ever!!!
wow, that was really good.
I'm Irish myself and i think our antem should be set to 7 Drunken Nights by The Dubliners
Girt is an alternative spelling of girth, an old english spelling it would seem.
So the alternative meaning for girt and girth, to encircle or surround. Seems to fit well with the meaning of the anthem.
I know the second verse. But only because we used to have to sing it at our Primary school asemblys every day.
love this so much. he aint a bad singer. and very good looking ^^
he sang this at the end of his inflatable show in perth sooooo good
THAT'S THE WAYYY!! imagine that being played at the olympics when we win gold! LOL
Adam killed this (in a good way). Man it'd be a tough choice between this and Waltzing Matilda when the republic comes ;)
I'd vote for this version of the anthem. It's a far better reflection of our character
wow that's awesome. :D
Fucking awesome! I remember when i was really little my primary School sang both verses and i was like ahhh fuck this.
But Adam should take this to parliment =D