About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 46. Chapters: Australian patriotic songs, Songs about Australia, The Avalanches songs, God Save the Queen, Advance Australia Fair, Waltzing Matilda, Down Under, I've Been Everywhere, Bush ballad, Treaty, APRA Top 30 Australian songs, List of songs about Melbourne, Cattle and Cane, List of songs about Sydney, Khe Sanh, Quasimodo's Dream, Kookaburra, Science Fiction, Even When I'm Sleeping, A Pub with No Beer, My Island Home, Cool Change, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport, Bachelor Kisses, I Am Australian, Great Southern Land, Frontier Psychiatrist, Hot Pants, Sounds of Then, I Still Call Australia Home, Since I Left You, Feels Like Woah, Sun Arise, Australiana, Gentle Annie, Under Southern Stars, Working Class Man, True Blue, Song of Australia, Lights on the Hill, Keeping Secrets, Pieces, Under the Southern Cross I Stand, Carry On, Black and Blue, God Bless Australia, When the Rain Tumbles Down in July, The Drover's Boy. Excerpt: "God Save the Queen" (alternatively "God Save the King") is an anthem used in a number of Commonwealth realms and British Crown Dependencies. The words of the song, like its title, are adapted to the gender of the current monarch, with "King" replacing "Queen," "he" replacing "she," and so forth, when a king reigns. It is the de facto national anthem of the United Kingdom and some of its territories; one of the two national anthems of New Zealand (since 1977) and those of Britain's territories that have their own additional local anthem; and the royal anthem of Australia (since 1984), Canada (since 1980), Barbados, Jamaica, and Tuvalu, as well as Gibraltar and the Isle of Man. In countries not previously part of the British Empire, the tune of "God Save the Queen" has also been used as the basis for different patriotic songs, though still generally connected with roya...
